As we enter a new week, consider the importance of cutting through the busyness and complexities that surround you to find the simple truths that illuminate and energize your life: what you’re really working for, what you really want, and who you really are.

• “Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “The more complicated this society becomes, the greater the need is to simplify your life.” – Darren L. Johnson
• “[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without — and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.” – Willa Sibert Cather
• “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann