Sunday Firesides: Simplicity Is Not Laziness

“Simplicity” is a word with an almost magical ring to it; if we could just simplify our lives, we think, it would solve many of our problems. Yet we often go about the simplification process in the wrong way.

While simplifying is largely associated with doing less, this is an impoverished definition of the idea. Monks embody simplicity, and while they do…