Primitive Simplicity

Without primitive simplicity there is no contemplation and no contemplative life. Contemplative living as a Christian calms the demand for answers. In fact, in the end there are no questions that need answering. A primitive monastic life naturally grows peace, humility, simplicity, and silence. It releases the obsessive grasping for authoritarian logic and returns us to a basic respect for life. Where this is respected solitude, poverty, prayer, silence, work, charity, and obedience can flourish, and sermonizing and legalisms fall away. Here is no private identity. Indeed, here is the realization that the shortest route to discover your self is to loose whatever self that you may have thought that you have found in Christ.