“Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal 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.” 

Bob Sharples, from Meditation: Calming the Mind