Long ago I learned that not all doctors are healers. But this man was a destroyer. I do not remember leaving his office, or walking over a mile home in the bitter cold. I do remember vomiting at a street curb.

At the moment, Palin is touring the country to promote her book, which has a very large number of words in it, but not all of them are necessarily either true or kind.

TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong just released her Charter for Compassion. Here it is, read by a perfectly representative demographic cross-section of...

Instead of just gutting it out or going into some form of creative denial, what if we embraced the crises in our lives and actually utilized them for the incredible growth opportunities that they are?

Anger, I know it so well. I lived with it for a very long time and have claimed it as a kin of mine. It got my heart rate and blood pressure up, and it got my adrenaline, and noradrenaline up.

Without a clear view of the whole process of meditation, it's possible to just roam and fumble around for decades or lifetimes for that matter.

We may have been told to 'follow the golden rule' as children (to do unto others as you would have others do unto you) but now science is illustrating the powerful role doing just that can have on humanity.

It is as "I am" that we have the best chance of experiencing the realization of our self as eternal bliss. Here we are at the doorway of knowing ourself to be pure awareness in a universe of infinite compassion.

Can we create the conditions in which we lead grace-full lives? Is it even possible to expect to live gracefully, with the world in so much chaos? My view is that there has never been a better time.

As I've learned and you've probably noticed as well, it's not only impossible to be right all the time, it's exhausting, stressful, and no fun (for us or others).

The benefit to meditation is that we become more synchronized in body and mind and begin to relate to our world in a less distracted and more wakeful way.

If I showed you a technique that elevates your mood, energizes you and makes you more charismatic on top of it all, would you be willing to spend 2 minutes testing it out for yourself?

When we think "self-centered," unpleasant images often come to mind; but it becomes important in the context of self-actualization to distinguish SELF...

There is a lot of anger on our streets these days, against healthcare, racism and Afghanistan, which made us consider what is most effective: resistan...

I do not want to create the false impression that compassion was the sole criteria parole commissioners faced during former Manson Family member Susan Atkins' 2009 hearing.

Your brain is supremely skilled at filtering out the familiar and telling you only about what matters - namely, change. Travel bypasses that filter and awakens your senses by confronting you with the unfamiliar.

Yoga helps us uncover how close or far we are from being with ourselves, and helps us to close the gap.

I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.

Isn't it up to God to forgive the truly horrible, like members of the Manson Family? Should we forgive all mass-murderers? Must we go that far?

When physicians express caring, empathy, and compassion, the duration and severity of illness are often reduced and the body's immune system is stimulated.

Researchers have found that we define a stranger's personality after a mere 10 seconds. With this thin slice of information, we start to think and act differently toward them.