The Royal Mountain

"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? Sleepless questions In the small hours: Have I done right? Why did I act Just as I did? Over and over again The same steps, The same words: Never the answer." -Dag Hammarskjold

"Did you choose your words carefully enough, what impression did you make, did they think you were trying to be ingratiating, etc.? It is questions like these which keep you awake. Are you no longer confident that your instinctive reactions will guide you right? If so, you know why. You have allowed your hunger for 'justice' to make you self-conscious, so that, in the performance of your task, you no longer forget yourself. So, and only so, can you be wounded by the opinions of the crowd." -Dag Hammarskjold

"The intense blaze of your anxiety reveals to what a great extent you are still fettered, still alienated from the One. However, don't worry about this or anything else, but follow the Way of which you are aware, even when you have departed from it. 'Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou will.'" -Dag Hammarskjold

"This is a freedom in the midst of action, a stillness, in the midst of other human beings. The mystery is a constant reality to him who, in this world, is free from self-concern, a reality that grows peaceful and mature before the receptive attention of assent. In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." -Dag Hammarkjold

Unchained - Johnny Cash