Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.