The way I see it, it is better to be simple. Remembering that God is love, I have said previously, "Love is so simple people will never understand it." And to be like God is what my man Jesus Christ suggested we do: "...you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." [Matthew 5:48] The goal is, perhaps, the antithesis of that "tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." [Sir Walter Scott] In other words, if your life is complicated, you're probably doing something wrong. I'm not saying, however, that you should do nothing — that is the simplicity of death, of oblivion — I'm talking about the simplicity of beauty.
I talk about the simplicity of beauty a little here. I reiterate my position that even the most detailed of structures, if there is beauty therein, there is a fundamental simplicity to its design. Not necessarily symmetry, either, or your traditional definitions of order — if you look at some pieces of Picasso, for example, the simplicity therein is perhaps viewable to its fullest if what the paintings represented were built in 4 spatial dimensions. There is beauty there. I think life is best served when one sticks to the simple, that there is a quintessence of simplicity to which the (perhaps many) details of your existence attune.
I think perhaps the best words on the subject of the simplicity of beauty, and how it relates to life, are by the big JC again: "...ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." [Luke 11:9-10]
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9:06pm sunday, 14th july
does anyone know of a website that may have any info on prof. john nash
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