Any authenticity I have, any vulnerability I have, any relatability I have, any creativity I really have, has come not from the times on the mountain top and all the applause and celebration. It’s come from those winters of heartbreak, where I felt alone and I felt confused and I felt like I didn’t fit into the world. And I felt depleted, exhausted and heartbroken. And the very things that were most hurtful to me, I’ve realized are the very things that have become the most helpful to me. And even the people who have hurt me, I’ve realized those people were my spiritual friends. I could have pointed the finger at them. I could have blamed them. I could have been angry at them. Instead, what I encourage you is rather than judging people, try to understand people.
Everyone does the best that they know how to do based on where they’re at. And if they could
have done better, they would have done better. Everyone is operating at the level of consciousness they know. And if they were more conscious, more awake, if they were bigger, if they were more intimate with their greater wisdom and their true humanity and that native hero that rests inside every human heart, they would have operated that at that level, you can use your difficult times as platforms for possibility. So you grow into the artist, productive hero and human being that you’re destined to be.