I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.