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In order to change, consistency is required in the form of rituals or systems. These provide the backbone and solid base with which to totally blow up one’s life and become a different person. My meditation practice over these years gave me solid grounding to inspect the parts of…

In “What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness,” Markowitz writes the following: We tell our daughters that kindness is the most important thing in the world. But how can we be kind if we are not first awake? To be kind, we must first notice. To notice…

If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do. ~ Gandhi Referenced in Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism an…