“one who is content with what he has, and who accepts the fact that he inevitably misses very much in life, is far better off than one who has much more but who worries about all he may be missing.  for we cannot make the best of what we are, if our hearts are always divded between what we are and what we are not…

we cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity.  happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony…

let us, therefore, learn to pass from one imperfect activity to another without worrying too much about what we are missing.”

~ thomas merton in seeds