"Understand impermanence ...."

Understand impermanence.  Contemplate the transitory.

"Chronicles of Tao"

"Let me be dressed fine ...."

Let me be dressed fine as I will,

Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

Isaac Watts

"While I know myself as a creation of God ...."

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.” 

Maya Angelou

"The world is not what we try to explore ...."

"The world is not what we try to explore.  The world should be what we learn how to merge and exchange with it, so that we can benefit each other and enhance our power and life.”

Monotony is the law of nature ....

Monotony is the law of nature.  Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises.  The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.

Mahatma Gandhi