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.

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.

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

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.

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