We come into this stillness like snowfall, the air alive with angels, every blessed flake singular and mysterious, what's outside quiet now, and changing form. Quickening, we breathe silence. Presence holds our lives in hush. Light dazzles. Listening, we learn to answer.
To live content with small means.
	To seek elegance rather than luxury,
	and refinement rather than fashion.
	To be worthy not respectable,
	and wealthy not rich.
	To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
	act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
	and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
	do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
	In a word, to let the spiritual,
	unbidden and unconscious,
	Grow up through the common.
	This is to be my symphony.