“If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.” IfsEasyEnlightenedCheatingMeditating Author:Dan Harris
“What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.” ThinkingWayDoeEmotionWiseMeditationAreasCome UpMiserableAlternativesShitheadsCompartmentalizing Author:Dan Harris
“Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.” KeysHealthyAwake Author:Mariel Hemingway
“The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.” PeopleGivingSufferingVoiceIllnessMental Illness Author:Mariel Hemingway
“Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.” PeopleIfsNeedsTryingEndsSufferingCommunityBehindsTalkingShameEmbracePainfulCeaseDefinedDisorderStigmaInstability Author:Mariel Hemingway
“We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.” Way Author:Mariel Hemingway
“Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.” TryingHelpingFormHealingCompassionIllnessMental IllnessHelping Each Other Author:Mariel Hemingway
“I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.” SocialParentJusticeMovementInvolvedBlessingSocial JusticeRaisedEnvironmental Author:Bonnie Raitt
“There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.” PeopleHeroOrganizationGrassrootsUnsung Hero Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, "sound barks," not even sound bites.” GivingSometimesEyeOpportunitySoundVoiceGroupsSpecialTelevisionPagesBlessedActivismJournalismBitesIgnoredBarkMicrophonesPublic EyeSound BitesDumbing Down Author:Bonnie Raitt