" Pain is inevitable... Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What matters is how we move forward afterward. Do we keep carrying the trauma and its causes in our mind? Or can we find a way to let go of them, to end our own suffering?...This is where mindfulness can help us. "

― David Michie , The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #3)