I am no longer afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women

“To me that’s the heart of the wisdom of resilience. The storms are always going to happen in life; we can’t prevent that – that’s part of the human condition. But when we learn how to sail our ship we’re taking responsibility for our own choices, our own resilience. Then we no longer have to be afraid of those storms and we can stay open and confident in our capacity to meet those storms. For me that was the nugget of resilience. When we’re open to learning, we use our tools and practices to learn how to meet difficulty, disappointment, and disaster more efficiently, more effectively, more skillfully, and that’s the basis of our resilience.”