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Lost in Thought

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 12, 2021October 19, 2022

“The psychological risks of meditation.”

Posted inCulture, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

Can Tech Become Ethical, If It Learns to Be Mindful First?

by Aaron Gilbreath August 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Is tech disrupting spirituality, or is spirituality finally disrupting tech?

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence

by Sari Botton October 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Kathryn Smith recalls going to an Ashram and taking a vow of silence — which (temporarily) made her feel better about everything.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence

by Kathryn Smith October 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Kathryn Smith went to an Ashram, and it made her feel better about everything.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence

by Kathryn Smith October 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Kathryn Smith went to an Ashram, and it made her feel better about everything.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

A Prescription for Forgetting

by Diane Mehta September 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

A Prescription for Forgetting

by Diane Mehta September 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Name’s Grass. Mr. Grass.

by michelleweber March 7, 2017October 19, 2022

At watching-grass-grow.com, you can watch Alex Komarnitsky’s lawn. In Southwest magazine, Bradford Pearson profiles Komarnitsky and explores his own fascination with a stranger’s front lawn.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

Travel, Foreignness, and the Spaces in Between: A Pico Iyer Reading List

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 12, 2015October 19, 2022

Seven reads by Pico Iyer on travel and finding one’s place in the world.

Posted inUncategorized

Longreads Guest Pick: Kristen Majewski on 'How Meditation Works'

by Longreads June 29, 2013October 19, 2022

Kristen Majewski is the social media editor of Prevention.com. My pick for this week is ‘How Meditation Works,’ by Liz Kulze, in The Atlantic. Meditation is often dismissed as New Age and hokey, but Kulze does a wonderful job of making mindful meditation an accessible notion and perhaps even a necessary one. She is absolutely […]

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