Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself. Respect your partnership with providence. Ask yourself often, How may I perform this particular deed such that it would be consistent with and acceptable to the divine will? Heed the answer and get to work. When your doors are shut and your room is dark, you are not alone. The will of nature is within you as your natural genius is within. Listen to its importunings. Follow its directives. As concerns the art of living, the material is your own life. No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

[...] you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.

Conduct yourself in all matters, grand and public or small and domestic, in accordance with the laws of nature. Harmonizing your will with nature should be your utmost ideal.

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Do yourself what you wish others to do. (1021)

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

You have to just do your thing. As long as you don't hurt anybody along the way.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.

Don't ask for things to happen as you would like them to, but wish them to happen as they actually do, and you will be all right.