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  • Willa Blythe Baker

    ‘One of the gifts of meditation practice is that it provides us with a way to…

  • October

    There is an incredible stillness that has arrived, as it often does at this time of…

  • Mumon

    Not falling, not evading—two faces of the same die.Not evading, not falling—a thousand mistakes, ten thousand…

  • Bessel van der Kolk

    ‘What we tend to leave out of most of our discussions about human functioning is to…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘No amount of brain research has given us access to consciousness as it manifests internally to…

  • Annie Murphy Paul

    ‘Actually the brain evolved in particular settings, mostly outside. It evolved to do things like sense…

  • Lisa Feldman Barrett

    ‘In the lectures Barrett gives to explain this model, she talks of the brain as a…

  • George Saunders

    ‘If we look at ourselves, we’re kind of set up to be these little Darwinian survivors.…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘We have no existentialism, but in our Buddhist philosophy we this kind of interpretation of our…

  • Li Po

    The birds have vanished from the sky.   Now the last clouds drain away.     …