Try the best you can

Music [or anything creative] is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well. – Martin Gore (Depeche Mode)

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You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough  

We're all going to fry like Twinkies unless we repent

The split between the Christian left and the Christian right could be, in part, that some people see tolerance and acceptance as part of their nobler selves; others feel that they can best honor God by working to change society and its laws to conform to the ethic of divinity, even if that means imposing religious laws on people of other faiths – Jonathan Haidt

A reason

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh I do believe
In all the things you say
What comes is better than what came before

And you'd better come come, come come to me
Better come come, come come to me
Better run, run run, run run to me
Better come

Oh I do believe
In all the things you say
What comes is better that what came before

And you'd better run run, run run to me
Better run, run run, run run to me
Better come, come come, come come to me
You'd better run

Spaceship Earth

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. – Buckminster Fuller

US Pavilion, Buckminster Fuller, 1967

What are you waiting for? Jump.

You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end. - Jeanette Berson

It's Alive!!

When you feel most alive, find out why. This is one guest you won't greet twice. - Kabir

Hammock - Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

Happiness is all in your mind

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

Open Your Heart, Free Your Soul

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not. - The Upanishads

On waking after the accident

I was presented with the "whole picture"

as they say, magnificently detailed,

a child's diorama of what life appears to be:

staring at the picture I became drowsy

with relief when I noticed a yellow

dot of light in the lower right-hand corner.
I unhooked the machines and tubes and crawled

to the picture, with an eyeball to the dot

of light which turned out to be a miniature

tunnel at the end of which I could see

mountains and stars whirling and tumbling,

sheets of emotions, vertical rivers, upside

down lakes, herds of unknown mammals, burds

shedding feathers and regrowing them instantly,

snakes with feathered heads eating their own

shed skins, fish swimming straight up,

the bottom of Isaiah's robe, live whales

on dry ground, lions drinking from a golden

bowl of milk, the rush of night,

and somewhere in this the murmur of gods--

a tree-rubbing-tree music, a sweet howl

of water and rock-grating-rock, fire

hissing from fissures, the moon settled

comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.

-- Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers

You have the power to change yourself

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Fractured Sense of Self

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. – Marianne Williamson

Letting Go

There's an important difference between giving up and letting go. - Jessica Hatchigan

Peace and Self-contentment

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivation

The crime is not to avoid failure, the crime is to not give triumph a chance. — H. Weldon