How can I live more simply?

This question has been rolling around in my head for two hours. It’s definitely tied to the need to “let go” but not just let go of stuff. It’s about letting go of anything that keeps me from going with the flow. Life is process not product and that is something I need to remind myself daily. In 12-Step circles they have a saying, “Keep it Simple, Stupid!” Mother Nature cries “Come and See.” What the world needs now is not love. Human Nature is capable of displaying love quite readily. What we as a species lack is Wisdom. If I want to live more simply, I know I must pray for Wisdom, forsake the duality that is driven by fear, forfeit willfulness for willingness not only for myself but for all human kind. I must pray that we all learn to let go of egoic-power-seeking thinking.

Richard Rohr says, “The sequence, without being too clever, goes something like this: we compare, we copy, we compete, we conflict, we conspire, we condemn, and we crucify. If we do not recognize some variation of this pattern within ourselves and put an end to it [let it go]in the early stages, it is almost inevitable. That is why spiritual teachers of any depth will always teach simplicity of lifestyle and freedom from the competitive power game, which is where it all begins.”

I was researching my journals this morning for writings on “simplicity” and was drawn to a phrase I wrote in 2016:
“A journey is from point A to point B.
A pilgrimage is from moment to moment.”

Life is trustworthy so may we all pray for the wisdom to let go, let it be, go with the flow. Let us all keep it simple and pray for wisdom moment to moment. Decisions based in wisdom are empowering…very different from power-seeking.

I close this sharing with a wisdom poem by Asta Fleur Love

There is a simplicity in creation which aches to be understood without human interpretations.
A harmony that exists in all living things, which cannot be contained in doctrines that seek to bind and restrain.
Nor mimicked by rituals and symbols which serve as bondages of obligation.
How can we understand this simplicity, if four walls are keeping us locked inside?
Inside our own biases and self righteousness? Inside our ego?
We have come to complicate what is meant to be simple.
Like standing outside beneath a canvas of blue and feeling the atmosphere whisper Love.
Or reverently holding a leaf, crafted by the hands of Love.
Do you see?
We are everywhere surrounded by the Creator of creation.
All we touch and smell and see has first been touched by the hands of Love.
That is the harmony in all living things.
And that is the simplicity in creation we are called to understand.
Asta Fleur Love