this was something that made me laugh. funny.
"So it often occurs that one is not being in the center of the potter's wheel, as it were, and if one accidentally throws clay on the edge of a potter's wheel, it flies off. There is nothing wrong with the clay and nothing wrong witht the wheel; you simply threw the clay in the wrong spot. And if you throw the clay in the center, then it makes beautiful pots." -Chogyam Trungpa. Meditation in Action.