As I write this, I’m sitting in my office on my lunch hour. I can hear six different conversations going...
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,...
It begins with a vague feeling of unease. Something isn't quite right but you cannot put your finger on it—or maybe you can, but there's nothing you can do about it, or there's...
I have a confession to make: I want to change the world. I'm a shameless idealist, and in my best moments I overflow with an optimism that makes some people look at me in disbelief and ask...
It was the first long weekend of the summer season and I'd decided that the best thing I could do for myself was to spend some time at the ashram. Life had thrown me...
Sometimes all it takes is one second for everything in your life to come crashing down. Once you've been alive long enough you know this—perhaps too well. Everything changes, and sometimes...
This spring I find myself caught in a mental loop, rethinking the same negative thoughts over and over, unable to take a step back and gain any sort of perspective for longer than a few brief...
We often go through our days rushing full speed ahead, as though trying to reach some imaginary finish line—the end of the meeting, workday, or class. We strive for that post-dinner relaxation...
My high school art teacher always encouraged us to work quietly on our projects. The purpose of this, she said, was to tune out the left brain, the logical, rational side and to allow the right brain...
The Buddha's first noble truth teaches that all life contains suffering, or dukkha. We understand this in a very profound way simply by living our lives. We suffer....
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher and writer, often speaks about the power of deep listening and the effect this can have on another person...
If you want to really get in touch with your neuroses, try meditating. As Buddhists and yogis, mystics, spiritual seekers and human beings we spend so much of...
