To Fail is to Live

11.29.10

"the plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. but is does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. it needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world more habitable and humane. and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture defined it."

-David Orr

I love this quote, and furthermore I'm wondering if we need to not be successful but rather failures.  I think there is great wisdom gained through failure.  Failure is humbling, failure makes you grateful for what you do have, failure can teach you far more than success.  What if religion was more based in failure than success?  Wouldn't the world be a better place if we weren't so caught up in trying to succeed at bringing everyone over to our "right" opinion and understanding of the world?