“Things take the time they take.
Don’t worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow
before he became St. Augustine?”
Mary Oliver in conversation with Krista Tippett
“On Being” Feb. 5, 2015
“By day, I am a servant of the urgent. Nothing important has a chance with me. I am too consumed with the things that must be done to consider whether or not doing them even matters.”
Barbara Brown Taylor
Learning to Walk in the Dark
“Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
till the right action arises by itself? “
Lao-tsu
Tao Te Ching #15
Translation by Stephen Mitchell