T.S. Eliot

Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.

Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.

May the judgement not be too heavy upon us.

There is one who remembers the way to your door.
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by way of dispossession.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change.
However you disguise it, this thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.