To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.
~ from STILLNESS SPEAKS by Eckhart Tolle
It costs so much to be fully human... One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms... One has to accept pain as a condition of existence... One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.