You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and part of your gift to the world. This is the beginning of wisdom.*
Krista Tippett

I’m really glad it didn’t work;
I’d been trying for sixteen years in three different places, but,
finally,
I stopped the striving –
Maybe, if I’d have got it to work, I would be still in that role,
But that would be a shame, because when I embraced getting it wrong, I was
set upon a path that has carried me to
the most fulfilling service I have been able to make, and the path
continues to unfold.

*Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise.