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Quaker Culture: Simplicity

Author(s):
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Issue:
On Art (March 2020)
Department:
Quaker Culture

Simplicity does not mean that all conform to uniform standards. . .  The call to each is to abandon those things that clutter his life and to press toward the goal unhampered. This is true simplicity. Friends are watchful to keep themselves free from self-indulgent habits, luxurious ways of living and the bondage of fashion. . . But this does not mean that all life is to be poor and bare, destitute of joy and beauty. . . Simplicity, when it removes encumbering details, makes for beauty in music, in art, and in living.

– Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1955)

Simplicity Beauty

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