If you ever feel like you are not making progress in your meditation practice or feel guilty you have not been practicing consistently, I gently offer a reminder of why we practice.
“Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself.
In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough.
It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people’s lives in a knot.
Instead there is now meditation as an act of love. How endlessly delightful and encouraging.”