Less effort

That experience of love of self gives us a renewed capacity to live our lives with less effort. Life becomes less of a struggle, less of a battle, less of an effort to live, and it opens up for us what we have all glimpsed, in some way and at some time, through love, that our essential nature is joyful; deep down, we are joyful beings. If we can learn to savour the gifts of life, if we can learn to see what life truly is, the goodness that it brings us, that savouring of the gifts of life enables us to accept its tribulations, its difficulties, its problems and suffering. This is what we learn gently, slowly day by day, as we meditate.