Meditation as a way of making friends with yourself  •  inviting in all aspects of yourself to a banquet of experience  •  workability: staying with our experience, whatever it is, at is arises  •  being more present in a heartful, gentle, kind way  •  becoming more familiar with our patterns at an early stage,  before they become overwhelming  • mindfulness or “heartfulness”?  • what we think we need sometimes falls away, and we realize we actually have everything we need