Seek and ye shall find

To attain his goal man must perceive that,
he is a child dependent upon his mother,
a father,
responsible for his family,
a youth lost in love,
an ancient wrestling against his past,
a worshipper in his temple,
a criminal in his prison,
a scholar amidst his parchments,
an ignorant soul stumbling between the darkness of his night and the obscurity of his day,
a nun suffering between the flowers of her faith and the thistles of her loneliness,
a poor man trapped between his bitterness and his submission,
a rich man between his greed and his conscience,
a poet between the mist of his twilight and the days of his dawn,
He who can experience,
see,
and understand these things can reach perfection,
and become a shadow,
of God’s shadow.
Kahil Gilbran

To honestly do the best we can do – not comparing our actions or results to others and to accept life as life unfolds gives us peace. To put in anything less than our best effort and to then resist life as life unfolds, hoping for a different outcome only causes us pain.