It is up to us to do what we can with what we have to work with. I say, “Take it to the silence, no, take it to the stillness beyond the silence. And wait for some compelling urgency to rise up as the mud settles and the water clears, and call you to enter the field of action with a mission in hand to do what needs to be done there, when, where and how it needs to be done, with the gifts of your original nature, inherent intuition, intrinsic virtues–the things you do best and enjoy doing most–and innate imagination, here, now, to atone for and redeem all that has gone before to the extent that is possible, and make things more like they ought to be than they are, in each situation as it arises, throughout the time left for living.”
If that seems too much for you, just maintain your relationship with what resides in the stillness beyond the silence, and you will be just fine through all of the circumstances that come your way, doing what can be done with what you have to work with, knowing that no one can do better than that. Not Jesus. Not Buddha. Not nobody. Not no how.
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