I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?