There are two moments in life that matter. One is when you know your life is absolutely valuable and alive. The other is when you know your life, as presently lived, is entirely pointless and empty. We need both of these to keep us going in the right direction. Lent is about both.
Modified from Richard Rohr

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few. Shunryu Suzuki

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty-

That is all you know on earth,

And all you need to know.
John Keats

Does a person gain anything

if he wins the whole world

but loses his life?

Mark 8:36

Nothing here below is profane

for those who know how to see

on the contrary, everything is sacred.

Teilhard de Chardin

An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know. Jen Sincero

Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you, rather than against you.  Eckhart Tolle

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you won’t understand. 

Seng-Ts’an