I don't claim anything like this- to be trying to save the world.  I only pray that this path I am walking will lead me in a good direction- towards one of honoring where I come from, and what has formed me- towards honoring all living things, and understanding my place among them.

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Do not try to save the whole world 

or do anything grandiose.

Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life

and wait there patiently,

until the song that is your life

falls into your own cupped hands

and you recognize and greet it.

Only then will you know how to give yourself

to this world

so worthy of rescue.

—Martha Postlewaite