VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI is asking everyone to quiet down. In his annual communications message released Tuesday, Benedict extolled the soun...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.12.2012
Through meditation you come to realize that who you are is no longer sourced in your mind or body or even your ego-personality, but in something else, something deeper that exists "prior" to all of these different aspects of yourself.
Marlise Karlin | Posted 11.17.2011
The infinite intelligence we connect with in Stillness has answers -- and once you know how to connect to this place consistently, there is an enormous amount of strength that opens.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011
Turns out that people aren't very good at thinking about two things at once. One study showed that when people were interrupted to respond to email or IM, it took fifteen minutes to resume a serious mental task.
Posted 05.25.2011
America is losing its quiet spaces; or more specifically, it's losing the spaces where all you hear are the sounds of nature. In Julia Baird's Newswe...
Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.17.2011
Yin yoga is not a new form, but rather a return to more meditative, traditional yoga. The emphasis is not on a lack of pain, but rather on how to feel discomfort, stay with it and move through it.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011
This is the second installment in my serialization of my new novel, Quiet Teacher.
Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.17.2011
My silent treatments started 15 years ago. Stressed out, worn out and wigged out, I wanted out - of town, that is. But I was in no shape to make tra...
Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011
In certain cultures people thrive on conformity. A party line is formulated and chosen. Citizens are expected to enunciate and articulate the party li...
Ode Magazine | Ursula Sautter and Mary Desmond Pinkowish | Posted 11.17.2011
A leaf blower, snow blower, lawn mower and two huge dogs--Peter D'Epiro can describe in excruciating detail how his neighbour's lawn equipment and pet...
AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 01.24.2012