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Can Tech Become Ethical, If It Learns to Be Mindful First?
Is tech disrupting spirituality, or is spirituality finally disrupting tech?
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The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence
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.
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The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence
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
Kathryn Smith went to an Ashram, and it made her feel better about everything.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story
A Prescription for Forgetting
Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
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A Prescription for Forgetting
Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
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The Name’s Grass. Mr. Grass.
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.
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Travel, Foreignness, and the Spaces in Between: A Pico Iyer Reading List
Seven reads by Pico Iyer on travel and finding one’s place in the world.
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Longreads Guest Pick: Kristen Majewski on 'How Meditation Works'
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 […]