“On the surface there is something not only quixotic but paradoxical about ‘the part of fortune.’ One always likes to think he earned his good fortune, or that he made the most of the breaks which chance presented. Myself, I have come to believe that through being receptive, keeping one’s mind and heart open—showing faith and trust, in other words—one’s desires, or prayers, are realized. By prayer I do not mean asking, hoping, begging or bartering for that which one desires but, without formulating it, living the thought—‘Thy will be done!’ In short, acknowledging whole heartedly to ourselves that, whatever the situation we find ourselves in, we are to regard it as an opportunity and a privilege as well as a challenge.”
—Henry Miller from BIG SUR AND THE ORANGES OF HEIRONYMOUS BOSCH
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