"Teach us to care and not to care.  Teach us to sit still."  T.S. Eliot

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We have a whole prayer based on the concept of serenity.  What does the word mean, though? If you 'achieve' serenity, does that mean that othing bothers you? No, that's robotic.  We are human, and we feel, so we can't expect that serenity will mean constant peacefulness.

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Instead, then, it must be acceptance.  We recognize that we need to be not unemotional about these things, but to be actually, truly content by accepting that what is, is.  It's a challenge., but we are getting better at it, 24 hours at a time.

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"To set up what you like against what you dislike -- this is a disease of the mind."  Seng-T'san

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"Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."   Anonymous

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"Everything is OK in the end.  If it's not OK, it's not the end."  Anonymous

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"I know worrying is effective, because almost nothing I worry about ever happens."  Will Rogers

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"My inferiority complex isn't as good as yours."  Anonymous

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"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.  When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."   Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day.  You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"If I die I forgive you; if I live, we'll see."   Spanish proverb

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"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."  Emo Philips

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"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."  George Santayana

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"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."   Carl Jung

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"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."  Goethe

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"When all else fails, there's always delusion."  Conan O'Brien

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"You can complain about the same problem three times.  If you have to talk to more than three people, you don't want help, you want attention."   Missy Arndt

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"I keep hitting my head against the same problem.  Why? I don't have a problem, I have a solution I don't like."   Anonymous

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"Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional."  Anonymous

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"Some wonder if they are too old to bother getting sober.  But even if you get only one day of sobriety, you die a conqueror, not a victim."  Carol Flom

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