If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.
We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.
Our relative being is what rules our relative world.
There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.
Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.