In Japan, there is an art to fixing broken pottery called kintsugi. The cracks are mended with a resin painted gold. The idea is that what is broken becomes more beautiful for having been broken.

In this way, the Japanese honor the broken rather than hiding it.

So often, we hide our wounds, our scars, our cracks. But what if they are the very openings through which we grow?

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening