Karen Berg J.K ROWLING AND THE OPPORTUNITY IN FAILURE J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, gave the 2008 Harvard commencement speech, entitled “The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination.” In it, she described how her most difficult time in life opened the door for her success. “I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. “I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” I’m not saying we need to lose everything to find our purpose in life. What I am saying, though, is that we can learn to appreciate the negative things that happen to us by recognizing them as keys that unlock the doors of transformation. Many people become spiritual because of adversities like disease or separation in their lives, and these people have become better human beings because of those situations. This is the power of walking a spiritual path: We just have to be patient while the cosmos reveals our spiritual essence in our lives and the world.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:56:49 +0000
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