Spiritual Journey

"To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties, but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart." Jack Kornfield

Making mistakes wakefully?  All of us do make mistakes, and perhaps the idea is to admit the mistake - at least to ourselves, learn from the mistake, and thereby be transformed.  It seems there is another thing we need to do, though, and that is to not beat up on ourselves for having made the mistake.  There are many types of mistakes we can make, and they can be big or small.  Mistakes in judgment about people with whom we enter into agreements.  Mistakes like forgetting an appointment.  Mistakes like neglecting our health or finances.  Mistakes like working too hard and not having enough recreation in our lives.  To be human is to make mistakes.  Let us forgive ourselves for any mistake and learn from it.