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Zy Marquiez
April 21, 2019
Do any of you have any clutter whatsoever? It’s always a sight to see a space that was immaculate turn into the earthquake child of a tornado and a volcano.
My desktops (both my actual one, and my digital) each had enough clutter to film separate episodes of hoarders. Truly. Okay, okay, not that bad, but bad enough that I can see it affecting my ‘Zenvironment’ as I like to say.
An individual’s Zenvironment is any place that brings them peace in one form or another. For me, my home office is one of them, but my home office is also the quickest place to clutter given that its my own personal ‘lab’ of sorts. Since it brings comfort, in a sense, I think it makes me lazy as a default. It’s kind of my “I’ll get to it later” zone. Yeah, uh huh. Random clutter in such a case is incredibly mentally suffocating default, but one I am willing to admit and I need to work on. A lot of work on.
As I was out getting sun today, it occurred to me to get back to my weekly routine of attempting to simplify aspects of my life in one way or another and be proactive about it. That way instances such as random clutter won’t just ‘come out of nowhere’ as if its a finished product. And that’s the thing, a little clutter is one thing, but anything more than that gets to be distracting and inefficient. That’s just the antithesis of streamlining.
But simplicity comes in many forms. It doesn’t only come in the material form, such as organizing an office. It also means organizing one’s thoughts, creating ‘simple’ habits that are positive. With that in mind, one of the simple habits I believe is helping me a lot mentally is actively doing puzzles on the phone when taking short breaks throughout the day irrespective of what I am doing. I have opted to do Sudoku, Kakuro, and Wordscapes. I strive to do one of each every day and I believe its helping my thoughts and mental faculties quite a lot.
There are many other areas in life in which simplicity will help all individuals. Below are several quotes I collated from respected individuals which allude to the importance of simplicity.
The reason for these is to contemplate them deeply and ruminate about what prompted them to make such statements. This should gives us an insight, no matter how limited, into the thinking/understanding that these individuals displayed in their daily lives:
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
“If you can’t explain it simple enough, you can’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
– Plato
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
– Coco Chanel
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
– Paramahansa Yoganda
– Simplicity will stand out, while complexity will get lost in the crowd.”
– Kevin Barnett
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
– Hans Hoffman
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
– William Golding
– “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
– Albert Einstein
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
– Isaac Newton
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.”
– Clement Monk
“How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart.”
– William Wordsworth
“Today’s complexities demand greater simplicity.”
– Elder L. Tom Perry
“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
– Mother Theresa
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…it takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
– Albert Einstein
“Embrace simplicity…Be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.”
– Chris Prentiss
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
– Joel Osteen
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
– Laozi
“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
– Walt Whitman
“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
– Papa Ramadas
“Simplicity is realizing what you need rather than what you want.”
– Apoorve Dubey
In our current day an age, there is an excess of complexity which plagues the populace. We have all dealt with many issues which harbor extreme complexity to the hilt. Much of it is out of our hands; not all however.
If the complexity is overdone, this leads to all manner of detrimental circumstances which are harmful to the individual, waste their time, and increase their stress.
As is often the case, for many issues there are solutions that can be viewed far easier if one just takes a step back and analyzes the situation from a detached point of view. Although not taught in conventional schooling, the mental tool of seeing things from a detached macro-POV is extremely useful for being able to see how different things interlock in the grand scheme of things rather than viewing things from a 1st person limited perspective
Allow me to repeat Paramahansa Yoganda’s incisive quote that might be of great use to most of us in the current world we live in: “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
If there ever were a quote that precisely relates how people could be best served, this one would be one of them.
Its so simple, its elegant. And it would solve countless problems and ameliorate stress as well. At least for me that is the case, which is why I often remind myself to reread these since I oft-overlook them.
So why not implement simplicity into your repertoire?
It doesn’t cost anything, but it may yield everything.
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Note:
The bold letters in one of the quotes was how I found the quote; I find it fitting to keep it that way. Its intriguing that the same way the quote hearkens at simplicity, so does one word: simple. This goes to show that many times 25 words accomplish the same as one, just as an example. I tend to be quite verbose myself, but the point of simplicity remains and its a salient one at that.
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About The Author:
Zy Marquiez is an avid book reviewer, inquirer, an open-minded skeptic, yogi, and freelance writer who aims at empowering individuals while also studying and regularly mirroring subjects like Consciousness, Education, Creativity, The Individual, Ancient History & Ancient Civilizations, Forbidden Archaeology, Big Pharma, Alternative Health, Space, Geoengineering, Social Engineering, Propaganda, and much more.
