CLEVE ANDRE G. ERO REFLECTION OF THE DAY FR.

HENRY MILKA
AB PHILOSOPHY IV April 24, 2022 SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR

Virtue of Simplicity
I wish Lord, who is present in the most holy tabernacle, that you allow to share my reflection here
in your simple abode. May the Holy Spirit guide me this particular in endeavor.
I reasoned that choosing this virtue would make it simple for me to reflect. Nonetheless, it
appears to me to be complicated. As a result, it's difficult for me to find time to ponder on what my point
of view should be. I conditioned myself while thinking about my reflection. Whatever I write, a certain
set of ideas, thoughts, and words should be expressed in a straightforward manner. So that it would be
consistent with the virtue on which I am reflecting, namely, simplicity. But, for some reason, I was unable
to do so. After going through so much trouble, I decided to leave the study hall. I headed to the chapel's
front. Take a deep breath and pause for a moment. It was a beautiful day. It was a typical day. The sound
of quiet is audible. Those soundless sounds of nature's speech compel me to listen. There, I see how the
tree trunks and leaves follow the direction of the wind. Birds flew to their destinations to rest, hunt for
food, and so on, and time flies. And as I returned to the chapel, it is evening of Sunday. I noticed the
community. Setting up an arrangement in a chronological pattern from first to fourth year. I'm standing
right in front of them. Saying nothing in front of them. But I guess that nothingness would eventually lead
to something else. Indeed, I am surrounded by a large number of horizons. Some of here were awaken by
their faith and some of them are calm and at peace having their meditation.
From here I got an insight that things place a special ordered manner. They have their own way of
movement. To live based on what they are and what they have. When they did not follow this, it will put
into chaos and complexity. It will disturb their normal inhabitant. Thus, things surround me is at the great
narrative of the world, confronting the realty of complexity. And continue to move according to the
design of the universe. And this complexity will only understand at scheme of simplicity. Because this
greatness comes or start with simple things.
Because of this there is only one thing I would like to share with you about my reflection on
simplicity. Simplicity here does not point towards the physicality of things but rather the attitude towards
the complexity. Simplicity is the ordinariness of thing which illumine the beauty of being within. In other
words, it is seeing the most obvious of ourselves. It simply means that when someone is simple s/he
becomes true of him/herself.
To say this, I express that simplicity is accepting what I am and what I have at the moment. That
will open the possibility of transcendence at the right time. Using this as starting point to do great things. I
am fan of making the most of my work in a great thing. But the problem is that I overlooked always that
to reach this greatness I must first consider and see what I am and what I have in the moment. It means
that I must use these resources accordingly even if it is small thing (sabi nga nila make the most out it).
This gives me the nuance that to be great does not start with abrupt change of something. It always starts
with what I am and what I have. If I did not use what I have at the moment, I am pretending that I am like
this. I am pretending that I can do these things even if I see to myself I cannot do it for now. Because of
that it will hinder me to be authentic to me myself. Things unravel its greatness and beauty without
forcing myself to use other capacity just to say that I am.
This virtue of simplicity I am referring to is that which uncover the complexity within. The
complexity of being pretentious to other people, showing that this is me but not. Falling from shackles of
lie. If this is always been the case, where can I flee? I say embrace what you have now. By accepting this
fact, I realize that I need to become simpler as I could because in doing what is simple I recognize what I
have and what I am. The Cleve within. In accepting this, perhaps, I will grow and see the possibility that I
will transcend at the proper time.
Before I go into the vast reality that is so demanding, I would like to say to myself go and be
simple again…