Repetition is not failure

I greatly appreciated these words from the Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo, from the entry of Sept 23 "Repetition is not failure"

"Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind."

 
"There is no expected pace for inner learning. What we need to learn comes when we need it, no matter how old or young, no matter how many times we have to start over, no matter how many times we have to learn the same lesson. We fall down as many times as we need to, to learn how to fall and get up. We fall in love as many times as we need to, to learn how to hold and be held. We misunderstand the many voices of truth as many times as we need to, to truly hear the choir of diversity that surrounds us. We suffer our pain as often as is necessary for us to learn how to break and how to heal. No one really likes this, of course, but we deal with our dislike in the same way, again and again, until we learn what we need to know about the humility of acceptance.

* Sit quietly and bring to mind one learning that keeps returning to you. It might be about giving yourself away repeatedly, or your struggle to trust, or about a particular way you hurt others repeatedly.
*Sit quietly, and as you breathe, try not to resist what this recurring piece of life is trying to teach you.
*Sit quietly, and as you breathe, see yourself as a shore and this recurring piece of life as a wave whose job is to make you smooth."
It reminds me of

- this mountain meditation: http://www.mindfulness-solution.com/DownloadMeditations.html 

- and this quote, that I read just this morning:
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"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone." -Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)