Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

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.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

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.

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

What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.