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.

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

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

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.

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

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

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