“We must work with time and patience if we want to make bread. There is no point in making it if we do not accept this. This is true of loving also. Awareness … acceptance … patience. It takes everything we have to be able to live this way. It means that we finally take up what is ours to do and let go of what is beyond our abilities. Life corrects us if we do not learn this. As Montaigne put it, “Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.”
–Gunilla Norris, Becoming Bread, p. 49
