~long, slow breath~

"This business of hozho. The way I understand it--" He paused. The way he understood hozho was hard to put into words. "I'll use an example. Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. the system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable."

--Jim Chee, in Sacred Clowns, page 274
Tony Hillerman, 1993