Patience, Like Water

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mind settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

-- Tao Te Ching

Self Invention

"Conceive, as a basis, that every life is shaped by two crucial inventions. The first is imposed from outside, at birth and during childhood..., the second is projected from within, as the life picks up momentum, by force of will and imagination. So we begin by being invented and we progress, if we can, to invent ourselves. The decisive element is nerve -- how much? Do we dare?"

-- Nik Cohen in The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll