Photo taken at Wat Rat Singkhon, Bangkok One of the greatest — and hardest — lessons I’ve learned over the last year: You cannot force the timing of life. Everything has its own timing, its own pace. Life unfolds naturally, and no amount of effort can rush what is not yet ready. When the mind comes in and tries to impose its perceived sense of timing and activity onto the world around you, it can only do so from a place of conditioning. The mind does not operate from personal