"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 listen to stars and birds and babes and sages
with an open heart;
to study hard, think quietly, act frankly,
talk gently, await occasions, hurry never;
in a word, to let the spiritual, the unbidden
and the unconscious
rise up through the common
- this is my symphony."