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Grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
the courage to change
the things I can,
and the wisdom
to know the difference.
—Serenity prayer
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That's how it goes,
everybody knows.
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The truth is an offense,
but not a sin.
—Bob Marley
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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That which you are seeking
is causing you to seek.
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Wherever you go
there you are.
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This is the life you have.
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Your projects will go unfinished.
—Chögyam Trungpa
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
—Toni Morrison
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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace within the storm.
—Anonymous
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And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around
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Poem: Allow
Poem: The Man Watching
Poem: In the Nursing Home
Poem: Mother’s Day
Poem: Democracy
Tigers above, tigers below
Radical acceptance practice
The World We Have
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