The Japanese say you embrace the broken. That breakage can become valuable. I'm trying to apply this to my life. I'm feeling broken, and it's been really difficult to make the gold and fill in my heart.
"Kintsugi: the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique"