Should Spiritual Language Be Simpler?
What is owed to today’s readers and listeners?
5 min readNov 27, 2021
What is the role of spiritual language today? Many great figures in spiritual history have communicated in profoundly simple or parabolic terms, from Lao Tzu to Zen master DT Suzuki, while others, from philosophers Immanuel Kant to William James, have navigated the rapids of complexity.
