Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, whatever joy you can’t contain, make it your creative offering.*
Susan Cain

Can we see that this voyage is not what we need to be cured of, but that it is itself a natural way of healing our own appalling state of alienation called normality.**
R. D. Laing

Susan Cain adds an insightful addition to
Frederick Buechner’s guiding thought that
we find our purpose where our deepest joy meets
the world’s greatest need.

Cain’s added complexity is that this joy
may emerge from our own pain –
Our kintsugi-like gift;
Another good reason for turning towards, and
not away, from our
painful thoughts and feelings.

*Susan Cain’s Bittersweet;
**Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By.