Life is simpler, what we make out of it is complex. In life, the fundamental core of our existence comes from an empty space, and we keep on filling this space with information, knowledge, we accumulate things that we pick along the way as we grow, and then wonder, why did we complicate it?
Look at, for instance, our own childhood. How often we say that life, when we were children, was so simple? Especially in times of stress of being grown-ups, this statement makes the appearance.
I am not suggesting that we shouldn't have grown up. Neither am I invalidating the knowledge and information that we have gathered along the way. I'm only implying that in emptiness there is simplicity. In the course of realising this we, in fact, have access to that simplicity. We simply have to keep aside all our precious knowledge and information gathered and make ourselves empty – even if it’s for a moment, and that will provide us an access to simplicity.
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
- Hans Hofmann
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