“Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really, we just don’t know.

When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test for each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell. In fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable.”

-Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart