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We don’t have to learn everything the hard way. We don’t always have to endure crises in order to learn our lessons. The essence of mindfulness is to be able to learn in the absence of failure; it is having the courage, discernment, and compassion for the self and for others to realize that you could be wrong even when nothing is going wrong—that some degree of uncertainty always exists in this world that we can never fully understand. It is to recognize the perpetual threat of complacency—of a false sense of security, of a false hope that things won’t go wrong, when they always do.