Your Daily Groove – Complex Simplicity

Posted by Steve McAllister on Mar 15, 2010 in Stuff | 0 comments

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“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It seems that we have developed in our society the rampant capacity to extremely complicate everything. As much as we might develop industries, products, and technologies to help us simplify our lives, the very act of development only serves to complicate things more. While society, with its insatiable need to expand and evolve, will be very slow going in achieving simplicity, on the individual level the virtue is still attainable. In truth, that is where simplicity is most profound. Nevertheless, if each of us realizes simplicity as one thing at a time, we will someday realize the oneness of all things and society as a whole may know simplicity.

Steve McAllister  (360 Posts)

Steve McAllister, Modern Hippie Mag's resident Lifestyle Guru, describes himself as a Renaissance Man. An author, filmmaker, songwriter, and perpetual artistic experimenter, he has recently re-released his second book The Rucksack Letters into paperback to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the journey. His latest book, a comical foray into philosophical science fiction, is How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld. His latest artistic project is The Labyrinth of the Unbroken Path. .