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What is needed of you is to suspend your judgement—the epoché of all things seen and unseen. 

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Einstein

May I be judicious instead of judgemental

What is needed of you is To accept all things with an attitude of wise resignation instead of the lethargic torpor of the effete masses who repudiate.

The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law—sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best.
Emerson

May I choose to let be

Notice the prevailing conditions that make things happen and turn your attention towards something, or to turn away from it

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.― R. D. Laing

May I be open to possibilities

You let your feet be swayed by the contents of being and much-experienced habit. Those who succeed, expect success Those who fail, fear failure.

For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.
― Zora Neale Hurston

May I choose to follow this path through

Even at your best and noblest you want to get to something; to health, to revelation, to divinity. Yet, this getting to gets you nowhere.As you try, you prevent

Even precious, life-giving breath is given to you. You cannot hold on to it, you must let it go to take in the next one, and one day, you will let go of it for the last time.—Jinananda

May I choose to let go

The illusion of separateness Is only a perceived absence created by what is always present. True freedom is to choose to be free from labels and forms.

Fate has bound it to be whole; unmoving. Its name shall be everything—every single name that mortals have invented convinced they are all true: birth and death, existence, non-existence change of place—Poem of Parmenides [40]

May I choose freedom over form

A mind that is tethered to beliefs ceases to pursue, ceases to follow the swift movement of what is. 

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.—The Garden Of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges

May I choose to doubt my doubts

Things far away are firmly present and their constant presence creates the illusion of absence. Where you are Is always at the centre of your thoughts.

Being born, coming into this particular body, these particular parents, and in such a place, and what we call external circumstances… form a unity and are as it were spun together—Plotinus: The Enneads

May I choose the here and now over the then and there

Mettā is the wisdom of the skilled navigator of life, making minor adjustments to counter the vagaries of circumstance, happenstance, and chance