Simplicity: Thomas a Kempis on Inward Simplicity
Teaching on Simplicity from Thomas a Kempis: Thomas a Kempis on Inward Simplicity
This is a spiritual discipline on single-mindedness and interior simplicity, drawing on Matthew 6:22, Philippians 3:13-14 and Luke 10:41-42.
Thomas a Kempis (d. 1471) wrote in "The Imitation of Christ": "The more a man is united within himself, and interiorly simple, the more and higher things does he understand without labor; because he receives the light of understanding from above." Simplicity, for Thomas, was primarily an interior quality -- a single-minded focus on God that eliminates the divided heart.…
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