Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
William MacNeile Dixon

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently‐that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born‐and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Francis of Assisi

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Adagio, HAUSER

Emanuel, Kristina Cooper

Beethoven: Appassionata Piano Sonata No. 23, Op 57 ‐ III. Allegro ma non troppo, Lang Lang