Living life is much harder than mediation. When you are meditating you are in the practice of full acceptance. You are saying yes to every feeling thought and emotion that you experience, all the while sitting comfortably. When you live life you are judging situations and people, making decisions, and moving towards goals--all of this with the same internal internal yes we practice in meditation. These two directives seem contradictory at first, but they are not. On the inside we do not try to achieve anything. There is an effortlessness to our being. On the outside we strive, we toil, we fail and we grow.
