The real education I always hoped for could not easily be had without the intimate participation of sickness, error, crisis, catastrophe, injury, confusion, madness, death, terror and conflict.

Therefore I humbly submit that we use hardship as a way to bootstrap our intelligence and capacity to develop effective minds and willing hearts. If, instead, we presume all these things utterly undesirable, we have become confused about the nature of our own minds… not to mention desire.