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The Lockdown It’s been just about a year now, give or take a day or two, since my visiting European friends, Sue and Suzi, left Santa Barbara. The U.S. was locking down and they flew home. That’s [...]

With the news of the Corona Virus and the subsequent lockdowns, popular McLean Meditation Institute faculty and teachers offered daily free online meditations for 9 months, nearly every [...]

Everyone wants to be happy, free, and fulfilled. And, here’s the thing, we already are – our soul, our being is naturally like that. And it is creative, wise, patient, and loving too. We can [...]

How do you view the world? Do you feel as if everything and everyone is on your side? Do you marvel at the good luck you have? If your answer is “yes”, perhaps it’s because you [...]

 My Father’s Passing (written in 2007) I would often leave the nursing home unfulfilled. Though I had done my duty: I had visited my aging father to make sure he had clean clothes, enough [...]

A superhero is ridiculously in charge of his or her attention. They don’t let anyone tell them what they can or can’t do, especially if it has to do with saving the world. In the recent [...]

Meditation and mindfulness training is more popular than ever before. Due to this increase in popularity, the imagined commercial potential is attracting enterprising business people because, [...]

After we picked up Daniel Siegel from the train station, we drove toward Isaac Newton’s childhood home. We were going to meditate there, under the apple tree that was said to evoke [...]

What a challenging time on our planet. I don’t even watch the news because it is so disturbing. Instead, I keep on teaching peace. I pray. I meditate. I take inspired action. I try to [...]

Twenty-five years ago when I first started meditating, it all seemed very mysterious, very mystical, and very foreign to my family and friends. But today, meditation and mindfulness have enjoyed [...]

Years ago I received a Service Leadership Award from Sustainable Arizona, an educational non-profit organization that I co-founded. Sustainable Arizona was formed to teach Arizonan’s how to [...]

It’s 4:00 a.m. and I get up out of bed and walk out behind my house. All is still and quiet and in my mind, life is perfect. The moon is nowhere to be seen. The wilderness behind my home