When you meditate, it is essential to create the right inner environment of the mind. All effort and struggle come from not being spacious, and so creating that right environment is vital for your meditation truly to happen.
When humor and spaciousness are present, meditation arises effortlessly.
– Sogyal Rinpoche, one of my Tibetan Teachers succeeding Rinpoche Trungpa
pic: ilg, after doing perhaps a bit tooo much meditation