The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy. It controls your heart rate, your blood pressure, your immune function, all of your subconscious impulses. That's not a minor role; the baseline brain is a marvel of complexity and efficiency. But too much of it is devoted to habits, old conditioning, unconscious reflexes, and lack of self-awareness.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

We are powerful magical beings.