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.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

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.”)

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.

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

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.