Practice is not about overcoming human problems. It’s not about becoming serene and transcendent. It’s about embracing our lives as they really are, and understanding at every point how deep and profound and gorgeous everything is—even the suffering, even the difficulty. So we forgive ourselves for our limitations, and we forgive this world for its

“To make art, you have to have just as much doubt as you do confidence.”

Grief, when it comes is nothing like we expect it to be. Joan Didion