Recently as our daughter’s dog rumbled about our house, it saw something outside and bolted through the screen door, leaving it in tatters. After years of practicing mindfulness and teaching people about it, I was able at the dog-ruins-screen moment to just take a deep breath, smile, and think: Well, I guess that screen is toast! This bypassed a lot of angry protestations that would have more naturally come out of me had I not been practicing mindfulness meditation each morn

After the recent attacks in Beirut, Paris, and San Bernardino, there has been for many a sense of dread about further attacks and an anxiety about where our world is headed. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein was gripped with similar angst about the human race’s newfound capacity to destroy itself. In a telegram asking two hundred prominent Americans to join his effort to raise money for world peace, Einstein wrote: “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking