when we decide to go somewhere, we discover we can’t take it with us.

No amount of prosperity, no amount of difficulty, is certain or forever. A triumph becomes a trial, a trial becomes a triumph. Life can change in an instant.

What could save me was loosening my grip and surrendering to the situation I could not change.

know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was. Only the is.