We've Got To Learn Hard

If A Good Person Does You Wrong, Act As Though You Had Not Noticed It. They Will Make Note Of This And Not Remain In Your Debt Long.

It Is Not The Repeated Mistakes, The Long Succession Of Petty Betrayals--though, God Knows, They Would Give Cause Enough For Anxiety And Self-contempt--but The Huge Elementary Mistake, The Betrayal Of That Within Me Which Is Greater Than I--in Complacent Adjustment To Alien Demands.

You Wake From Dreams Of Doom And--for A Moment--you Know: Beyond All The Noise And The Gestures, The Only Real Thing, Love's Calm Unwavering Flame In The Half-light Of An Early Dawn.

Here Man Is No Longer The Center Of The World, Only A Witness, But A Witness Who Is Also A Partner In The Silent Life Of Nature, Bound By Secret Affinities Of The Trees.

You Dare Your Yes - And Experience A Meaning...you Repeat Your Yes - And All Things Acquire A Meaning...when Everything Has A Meaning, How Can You Live Anything But A Yes.