Feed your faith…

 

“Feed your faith and all of your doubts will starve to death.”
—Gaur Gopal Das, author of The Way of the Monk

 

Simplicity


by Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as
 two or three,

and keep your accounts on your thumb nail …

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome


and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the


companion that was so companionable as solitude …

If one advances confidently in the direction of his


dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has


imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in


common hour …

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.


So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.


We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and


took advantage of every accident that befell us. Sometimes, in


a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my


sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the


pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and


stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through 
the house,

until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the


noise of some traveller’s wagon on the distant highway, I was


reminded of the lapse of time.
 
“Simplicity” by Henry David Thoreau from Walden. Public Domain.

 

 

Zen-Zoch

illustrator: Julie Rohan Zoch

 

Zen-Zoch

 

notice the simplicity of Zoch’s signature: “r Z”

black on white circle (negative space)

redolent of the yin/yang pattern

the gray values

the hard thin toe and wing lines

the soft edges on the head top and shadow

the two tones of gray to suggest the rounded abdomen

the soft simplicity of the closed eye lids

waiting for enlightenment

…waiting

simplicity

calligraphy by John Stevens

 

wing a flourish

from a heart

rotate

fly across an “O”

tap a shoulder of an “r”

and drop kite-like

deflate gently to the bottom

where “amore”

breaks the ground

 

( Note the harmony possible with the fine point pen, the extra thin lines, and the

itsy bitsy Majuscule letters)

 

 

Simplicity (Tintinnabulation)

The Acadia Handbell Choir @ Southwest Harbor Library, Maine

 one year olds danced – six

year old played violin and

all ages choired!

 

Simplicity

painting of the kibbutz by Neil Waldman

.

vibrations move to

lift; enhance togetherness

highlight devotion

If Batman could choose a mate

Youth’s innocence

.

Choose youth’s innocence

awe and simplicity for

therein lies your strength

Simplicity

art by Walter Koessler

.

simplicity makes

for easy translation; ease

of swallowing truth

Definition #293 A Poetry Prose Piece

Walden Pond

Simplicity

by Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as
two or three, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail …

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome
and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the
companion that was so companionable as solitude …

If one advances confidently in the direction of his
dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hour …

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and
took advantage of every accident that befell us. Sometimes, in
a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my
sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the
pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and
stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through
the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the
noise of some traveller’s wagon on the distant highway, I was
reminded of the lapse of time.

“Simplicity” by Henry David Thoreau from Walden. Public Domain.

Definition #195 Simplicity

From my face to Annika’s
2015

Quatern

Make the complex simple

awesomely simple;

that’s creativity!

translucent diadems.

Charles Mingus

Thoughts too weak:

make the complex simple;

empty them, start again:

they’re beyond cognition.

Luc de Claplers

Try for plainness

selflessness:

make the complex simple

polished core revealed.

Lao-Tsu

Birdsong, sky and weather:

luminous and spare;

look through them to see the world;

make the complex simple!

Stanley Kunitz