Daily Meditation: Tuesday, March 25, 1997

Sometimes, when you talk to people about a simple life, it …

03/25/1997

Sometimes, when you talk to people about a simple life, it means nothing to them and they think it must be incredibly boring. Consider the lives of honest people for instance: how can you write novels or make films about such lives? There is nothing to say. Whereas the life of a crook, a secret agent, a femme fatal – now that is far more interesting! In reality, however, you are mistaken if you think a simple life is boring. How is it that the angels and archangels, who live a simple, luminous, divine life, still do not find it boring? The simple life is full of colour, sounds and fragrances. Do not confuse simplicity with poverty. A simple life, as the initiates understand it, is really the richest and most beautiful of all, because the whole of heaven is contained there. A diamond is simple – it is made of pure carbon – but it is the most sought-after of all precious stones. A diamond is true simplicity. So, how could you think of simplicity as poor, dull and monotonous?