Pause.

“This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that
shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at
your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put
away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no
permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your
breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you
home.”

Mirabai Starr. From Interior Castle.

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there
is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or
unremembered peace.”

Howard Thurman