It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve. Serving, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is the universal statement of a star,
the message Orion
has carried
in winter through the ages:
It is the dark
which illuminates.