Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker.
Axelrod responded, All we can do is everything we can do.
Many of us labor under the delusion that we’re permanently stuck with all of the difficult parts of our personalities—that we are hot-tempered, or shy, or sad—and that these are fixed, immutable trait...
Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon. Public health revolutions can happen rapidly. Most Americans did...
There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.
Self-cherishing, that’s by nature, he said (by which I assumed he meant it’s natural). Without that, we human beings become like robots, no feeling. But now, practice for development of concern for we...
I do know one thing for sure: there’s much more for me to do. Whether or not 100% happy is achievable, I can definitely be more than 10% happier—and I’m excited to
When you squelch something, you give it power. Ignorance is not bliss.
There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can. To
Repeat the following phrases: May you be happy, May you be healthy, May you be safe, May you live with ease. Do this slowly. Let the sentiment land. You are not forcing your well-wishes on anyone
I’d be loath to call what I’m feeling spiritual or mystical. Those terms connote—to me, at least—otherworldliness or unreality. By contrast, what’s happening right now feels hyperreal, as if I’ve been...
His favorite book, by an ancient sage
We are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human consciousness, but they won’t be talking about it in the news tonight. —Eckhart Tolle, self-help guru Open
The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.
Buddhists were always talking about how you have to 'let go,' but what they really meant is 'let it be.
We are constantly murmuring, muttering, scheming, or wondering to ourselves under our breath, wrote Epstein. ‘I like this. I don’t like that. She hurt me. How can I get that? More of this, no more of...
If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)
All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)
Write down this quote from Jon Kabat-Zinn and put it up on your wall: Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
The price of security is insecurity.