From Anthony DeMello:
Student: “Master, what is the secret of your serenity?”
Master: “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.”
From Howard Thurman:
“There is a general notion abroad that the wise man accepts the universe, accepts life. The notion is sound because it reveals a direct understanding of the most elementary fact of life, namely, that the universe is here and we are in it.”
I like those shorthand reminders – “cooperation with the inevitable” and “the universe is here and we are in it.”
To these I would add a third:
To carve an elephant, I need not create the block of wood.
It occurs to me... 