If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.