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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 304327"><p><span style="color: #d52b1e"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"><strong>Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #d52b1e"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">--Thomas Fuller</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #d52b1e"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'">In the Serenity Prayer, we pray for the wisdom to know the difference between what we can change and what we cannot. That distraction can be hard for many of us to recognize. When we finally see the reality clearly that some things we face cannot be controlled by our own will or fixed by force new possibilities open up to us. When we stop trying to move a mountain, our relationship to the mountain changes. We start to live at peace with the mountain. At the same time we can take greater responsibility for those parts of our lives that we can change.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Peace of mind comes from accepting what we can do nothing about and taking responsibility for what we can.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 304327"] [COLOR=#d52b1e][FONT=georgia][B]Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.[/B][/FONT] [SIZE=1][FONT=arial]--Thomas Fuller[/FONT] [/SIZE][/COLOR] [FONT=arial]In the Serenity Prayer, we pray for the wisdom to know the difference between what we can change and what we cannot. That distraction can be hard for many of us to recognize. When we finally see the reality clearly that some things we face cannot be controlled by our own will or fixed by force new possibilities open up to us. When we stop trying to move a mountain, our relationship to the mountain changes. We start to live at peace with the mountain. At the same time we can take greater responsibility for those parts of our lives that we can change. Peace of mind comes from accepting what we can do nothing about and taking responsibility for what we can.[/FONT] [FONT=arial][/FONT] [FONT=arial] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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