The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

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

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.