attaining it: and, like them, he not only cast aside everything that had nothing to do with his ideal, union with God, but he even refused to be encumbered with secondary or merely indirect means of getting what he desired. St. Benedict was guided by the spirit of simplicity,23 and therefore he would have souls unify their plan of sanctification, and simplify all their means to that end. And how simple he is when he comes to work out his spirituality in those observances by which he seeks to express