while writing an email wrestling with "what is this bigger picture" and "please trust we can get there" and "yet be intensely and wildly and fabulously wealthy while doing so", i closed my open windows on my computer and the one left open was inexplicably opened to...

When poverty leads you to practice the Dharma
it makes you more rich than
any king or tycoon.
Without the false lure of a lot of possessions
to lead you on an endless wild goose chase,
you can find the lost vault of your own naked awareness.
So reconsider your misfortune.
Your poverty can be the golden key
to the natural supreme fortune of fortunes.

i love reminders.