Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 4

'Simplicity cannot be found unless one is free inwardly - 24 July 1949

• Only when the mind and heart are really simple is one able to solve the many problems that confront us.

• A religious man is he who is inwardly simple.

• Q: I have been a member of various religious organizations but you have

destroyed them all. I am utterly bored and work because hunger forces me to

it. I am afraid to commit suicide. What on earth am I to do?

• Q: What have you to say to a person who, in quiet moments, sees the truth of

what you say, who has a longing to keep awake but who finds himself repeatedly lost in a sea of impulse and small desires?'