Not for the faint hearted

Meditation will seek out your weakness and not let you fool yourself.  You will notice the thoughts which persistently intercede between you and the focus of your attention; they come with stealth to steal the extraordinary power of attention which is a present gift.  After all, it is the same attention which has made the whole creation as well as every beautiful thing in the heavens and every curious thing on the earth.  It is the power of attention where we are most akin to that which is behind everything.  And it is a waste of that power to be thinking of the day ahead, it will go its own way without any interference from you   It is a waste of energy to try to put right wrongs in your head, you can do that when you aren't meditating, it is a waste in my case to wonder how the grandchildren will manage the modern world or how the broody hen will manage to keep her chicks safe when she has chosen to hatch them out under the cement mixer.  It is a waste of energy when I can just join the movement back to the real home by meditating properly.  This is a statue of Apollo which was thrown into a pit in Delphi and didn't come out for over a thousand years.  When you stand in front of him, it is clear that the power he represents is undiminished so why should we worry about what might happen when we just don't know.