new fortune, fixed readme.

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   -- Anyen Rinpoche & Allison Choying Zangmo, "The Tibetan Yoga of Breath:
      Breathing Practices for Healing the Body and Cultivating Wisdom",
      published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Our worries may zoom around the state of the world.  “What happens if the
+economy plummets?  If the ozone layer keeps decreasing?  If we have more
+anthrax attacks?  If terrorists take over the country?  If we lose our civil
+liberties fighting terrorism?” Here, our creative writing ability leads to
+fantastic scenarios that may or may not happen, but regardless, we manage to
+work ourselves into a state of unprecedented despair.  This, in turn, often
+leads to raging anger at the powers that be or alternatively, to apathy,
+simply thinking that since everything is rotten, there’s no use doing
+anything.  In either case, we’re so gloomy that we neglect to act
+constructively in ways that remedy difficulties and create goodness.
+  -- Thubten Chodron, in "Taming the Mind", published by Shambhala Publications
+