things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.

Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?

Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

In Yellowstone National Park, human-imposed stability thwarted for many years the natural process of small fires, which regularly clean out brush and dead trees. The result was a fragile equilibrium completely vulnerable to the cataclysm of fire that destroyed large areas of the park. The attempt to manage for stability and to enforce an unnatural equilibrium always leads to far-reaching destruction. The

Can we apply this expression to our own belief in the reality of God in our lives and our world? As

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.