You cannot by willing it - Howard Thurman

[Larry Robinson]

You cannot by willing it alter the vast world outside of you.
You cannot strike the handcuffs from one chained hand.
You cannot cut the lash from one whip.
You cannot even remake your own soul so that there shall be no inclination
	to evil in it.  
The great world rolls on, and you can do nothing to change it.
But this one thing you can do:  in that one, small, minute, almost infinitesimal
	place in the universe where you stand—there, where as God, your will prevails,
	strive to make what you hunger for real.

	- Howard Thurman

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