A Panda's Journey
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” — Leonardo Da Vinci
In a world of noise, distractions, politics, drama, and conformity, where is simplicity to be found?
Nature is a great place to go into for simplicity, but your inner self is even more divine.
What are you doing to simplify your life?
Da Vinci said “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
It is.
Many people live their lives in unnecessary complications that cloud their lives & those around them. Some people think that their complications give their life meaning, when often their complications take away life’s meaning.
To each their own.
If living simply was easy, everyone would do it. It’s not easy to live simply & be happy & fulfilled – to not be comparing & competing, but to just be. & to be happy with what we have.
Abundance & gratitude often breed more abundance & gratitude.
A simple life may lose you some friends, but it will bring you peace.
“Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.”
– Ram Dass
If you are like me & probably most people, you faced challenges & adversities in 2023, and it may have been depressing. It was for me at points of the year. Life happens to us all. The weather changes.
Anyway, I am reminded today from Ram Dass to smile. Sometimes we overthink or live in a fog or may be afraid to act.
The sun rises & sets as it does, and we humans sometimes go around thinking & overthinking things, worrying ourselves, complicating things, when simplicity is offered to us.
Sometimes reading Ram Dass quotes is like breath to my soul.
I hope you have a wonderful 2024!
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
– Isaac Newton
Nature appears to be meditating all the time. It is still. It doesn’t worry about anything yet it accomplishes its task.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu
We’ve been educated to worry, but what if we didn’t?
What if for at least one day we didn’t worry about anything – like Bob Marley sings.
My challenge for you is for one day this week, think about what it would be like to not worry about anything at all.
Simply live.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
With Ken Thompson 