Often from our seeming weaknesses we can learn a new way.  The things we do well, where we have developed our greatest self-confidence, can become habitual, bringing a sense of false security.  They are not where our spiritual life will best open.  If it is our strength to think through things carefully, then thoughts wil not be our best spiritual teacher.  If it is already our way to follow our strong feelings, then feelings are not where we will learn best. 

The place where we can most directly open to the mystery of life is in what we don’t do well, in the places of our struggles and vulnerability.  These places always require surrender and letting go: When we let ourselves become vulnerable, new things can be born in us.  In risking the unknown we gain a sense of life itself.  And most remarkably, that which we have sought is often just here, buried under the problem and the weakness itself.

Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart