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“Happiness slips from our grasp as we chase other things.” I was sitting at my kitchen table, holding a cup of coffee, when those words from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book “Transformation and Healing” stopped me cold. At the time, my evenings followed a familiar ritual: sitting in the glow of my laptop screen, clicking “add … Read more

There was a time when my mornings started the same way: Before my eyes had adjusted to the gray light filtering through the blinds, my thoughts were already filling with tomorrow’s obligations, each one quietly draining the small reserve of ease I had carried out of sleep. To cope, I would lie still beneath the … Read more

In this article, I would like to share three reasons why you should meditate, how meditation changed my life, and how it can change yours. Six years ago, I was stressed and overworked. I was living on autopilot, chasing some vague notion of “happiness” based on external material things. But the finish line kept moving … Read more