Simplicity…

"Simplicity… So few people know the meaning and importance of this
word! They stop at its outer expressions: simple clothing, simple
manners, a simple way of life. Simplicity is really a
philosophical attitude consisting in distancing oneself from the
physical world, the world of phenomena, and rising to the
spiritual world, the world of principles. That is what simplicity
is: a movement towards the centre or the summit, whereas
complication takes you back the other way, from the centre to the
periphery, from the summit to the base. When you move away from
simplicity, unity, you are faced with so many details, you no
longer see how things organize themselves according to the laws
of affinity; you are pulled about, you grope around and grow
weak.
The symbol that best expresses simplicity is the diamond, since
it is unadulterated, being pure carbon. And we too will possess
the purity of the diamond, as well as its strength, when we find
true simplicity."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov