The Importance of Forgiveness

"Shame was like such a big curriculum in my life and feeling like something fundamentally wrong was at the base of my being," she says. "I did a 30-day silent retreat when I really bought into this view with the premises that if I take refuge ... then I'm going to keep going on this path" She writes about befriending Sufi poets, having tea with them and trending whatever language they speak. 'If we treat every feeling that visits us as a guest that we have genuinely set down'