Simplicity is a spiritually achieved state of art.

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• Only a very simple thing can be spiritual.claim0.827
  Because all extraneous stuff must be removed to reach purity of heart.
• True simplicity — the thing which is truly whole — leaves the nothing undisturbed, quiet, like a lake.claim0.813
  Poetic statement of the Ground-clearing nature of true simplicity.
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.807
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• In every case, the process is straightforward, simple, and above all free: it allows the reality of the situation, the human needs, human joys, to find expression.claim0.799
  A summary generalization from the examples about the nature of living processes.
• Simplicity as depth has been replaced by a mechanical idea of simplicity as the geometrically banal.claim0.797
  Alexander critiques modern architecture's misunderstanding of simplicity.
• Simplicity and Inner Calmconcept0.796
  The property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.789
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• The entire living process is oriented by the simplicity transformation, and is pruned steadily to move towards beautiful simplicity.claim0.787
  Identifies the fifteenth transformation as the overarching aesthetic guide that shapes the process outcome.