It is I Who Must Begin

It is I who must begin.

Once I begin, once I try -

here and now, right where I am.

Not excusing myself by saying

things would be easier elsewhere,

without grand speeches and

ostentatious gestures,

but all the more persistently -

to live in harmony with the "voice of being"

as i understand it within myself -

as soon as I begin that,

I suddenly discover, to my surprise,

that I am neither the only one,

nor the first, nor the most important one

to have set out upon this road.

Whether all is really lost or not

depends entirely on whether or not

I am lost.

Vaclav Havel