One form of drowsiness and low energy that can arise in meditative practice is the sort that stems from discouragement... more

During his junior year of college, a tragic accident during a game of pick-up basketball disrupted Howard Axelrod's course in... more

"The 'transcendent' big 'S' Self is one hundred percent present on and within each and every experience. In fact, the... more

"The path tends to move along a continuum from personal dukkha - or fundamental wrongness - to a transformational awakening... more

"To me, the only habit worth 'designing for' is the habit of questioning one's habitual ways of seeing, and that... more

"The perch is the seed of stillness. Receptivity is the seed of awareness. And choice is the seed of surrender.... more

Natural selection did not program humans to be happy or to see the world accurately; it simply optimized our ability... more

The rapid acceleration of technological evolution paired with the slower evolution of human psychology poses a serious existential threat. Will... more

"But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close friendship with another, the... more

"The yin-yang symbol is not, therefore, what we call a dualism, but rather an explicit duality expressing an implicit unity."... more