The last week has been a whirlwind of learning for me. I’d been taking the steps necessary to achieve such learning for fifteen months, and had certainly learned plenty, but it’s all really started coming together the last week.

After I described this to one of my sisters last weekend, she mentioned something related Pema Chödrön had once said. Based on that, I bought one of Chödrön’s books in digital format. I began reading it in the wee hours of that morning.

Not so long ago, I constantly r...