Mindful Meditation Has Been Discovered To Foster

Our Brain Comes Hard-wired With An Urge To Play, One That Hurls Us Into Sociability. A Child's Play Both Demands And Creates Its Own Safe Space, One In Which She Can Confront Threats, Fears, And Dangers, But Always Come Through Whole. Play Offers A Child A Natural Way To Manage Feared Separations Or Abandonment, Rendering Them Instead Opportunities For Mastery And Self-discovery.

I Don't Think Focus Is In Itself Ever A Bad Thing. But Focus Of The Wrong Kind, Or Managed Poorly, Can Be.

Societies Can Be Sunk By The Weight Of Buried Ugliness.

I Think The Smartest Thing For People To Do To Manage Very Distressing Emotions Is To Take A Medication If It Helps, But Don't Do Only That. You Also Need To Train Your Mind.

Our Genetic Heritage Endows Each Of Us With A Series Of Emotional Set-points That Determines Our Temperament. But The Brain Circuitry Involved Is Extraordinarily Malleable; Temperament Is Not Destiny.