My Buddha Wears Bifocals: Reflections at Midlife and Beyond

what I know now is that it is not the outcome that determines how or why we come to love our story. We do so not because of the blessings and joys we have known, nor in spite of the misfortune and hardship we have endured. We come to love our story, if we are lucky, precisely because it is our own. From My Buddha Wears Bifocals