Searching for a balance between dedication and being driven is what Reinhold Niebuhr was trying to describe in his well-known Serenity Prayer, the prayer that every holistic practitioner must keep close to his or her heart: God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference: Living one day at a time, accepting hardship as the pathway to peace, taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that you will make all things right, if I surrender to your will, so that, I
...more
