There is a Tibetan parable that says if we put a tablespoon of salt in a glass of water and drink it, the water will taste terrible and bitter. But if we were to stir that same tablespoon of salt into an enormous, clear blue mountain lake, the water in the lake would remain sweet; we would not taste the salt at all.  The problem, the Tibetans say, is not the salt we are given. The real problem is how spacious is the container into which the salt is poured.

The question is not, never, ever, whether or not we will be given challenges and limitations. We will. The question is, how we will hold them, how will we be changed, how will they shape us, what will we bring to the healing of them, what, if anything,  will be born in its place?

Wayne Muller, A life of being, having, and doing enough

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