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.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

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.

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.

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

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.