A nice meditation pep talk by the teacher Sam Harris: “And as we continue to deconstruct normal waking consciousness, you'll begin to see...

A great quote by Elliot Aronson, Ph.D., who helped pioneer the study of cognitive dissonance. “We all have blind spots, and perhaps the...

I collect short definitions of mindfulness—it is surprising how many different ways there are to summarize the practice. Here’s a fave...

A quote by the author and educator Parker Palmer: Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means...

After the Serenity Prayer, this is perhaps the ultimate equanimity poem, apparently written by an anonymous elementary student in an ESL...

When I think about why I meditate, I often can’t find an intellectual answer. It just seems right. But it does help to have an...

When he talks about the loving kindness practice, Jack Kornfield reads this story as a way to open hearts. It is from the book Mortal...

When we practice meditation, we are practicing reacquainting ourselves with our natural awareness. We remind ourselves what our...

Physicists often have wise sayings. Perhaps it is because they spend their whole lives exploring the fundamental interconnectedness of...

Karen Maezen Miller describes herself as “a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles.”...

This is a shout out to Michelle Gladieux and her amazing team at Gladieux Consulting. We get enamored by people that devote their lives...

Here’s a quote I enjoy, but I don’t remember where it came from. Let me know if you recognize it. “So many people say that they cannot...

Adyashanti is a wonderful teacher whose audiobook True Meditation offers some unique ways to experience the practice. Here he is talking...

A little inspiration from Sharon Salzburg (from a talk on the excellent 10% Happier app, lightly edited for print): “One of the things...

It seems our culture and upbringing and genetics conspire to give many of us a message that is so deeply internalized that we often can’t...

This quote is from an excellent blog post on motivation by Marie-Josée Shaar “In his book The Happiness Hypothesis, Jon Haidt explains...

A quote that says it all when I’m stuck in my head. Or just about any time, really. From the polymath David Bohm: “The reason we don’t...

Finding time to meditate can be tough. But don’t underestimate the power of even just taking a few conscious breaths during the day to...

A nice, um, colorful description of mindfulness by the wonderful teacher Christiane Wolf. From her interview with Dan Harris about her...

With mindfulness, you begin to realize that there is no thought that rises into consciousness that doesn’t have some tinge of liking or...