Noah Levine was once a troubled young man who sought escape through drugs and alcohol. Today, he is a well-known meditation teacher and founder of the Oakland, California-based Mind Body Awareness (MBA) Project, an initiative that has been transforming the lives of incarcerated and at-risk youth through mindfulness meditation since 2000. This vivid, luminous trip through the lives, minds, and hearts of some of the faces involved in and touched by the MBA Project speaks to the power of meditation to expose and to make radically effective, and radically influential, the shared human desire “to be loved, to be heard, to be tender, to be free.”