• I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

    Thomas Merton: I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
    Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications