The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments.

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.