"And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do."

-- Ursula LeGuin

"Just live life as it comes but alertly, watchfully, allowing everything to happen as it happens, doing the natural things in the natural way suffering, rejoicing -- as life brings."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"If you imagine that once you accomplish your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end."

-- Yoshida Kenko