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.

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.

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.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

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

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.