“I like being able to talk to my mom without rolling my eyes. I like my mom. And I like my inner teenager. Nobody taught her to expect that the world could be kind, that other people would be helpful, that gentleness was an option. That simply existing means you have value. We’re learning that now, and we try to speak from that knowledge rather than shouting from habit.”

Read more: http://www.theidproject.org/blog/nancy-thompson/2011/06/25/why-i-meditate-anyway