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.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.