How to practice Mindfulness Meditation: Mindfulness is available to us in every moment, whether through meditations and body scans, or mindful moment practices like taking time to pause and breathe when the phone rings instead of rushing to answer it.

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. The goal of mindfulness is to wake up to the inner workings of our mental, emotional, and physical processes.

What is Meditation? Meditation is exploring. It’s a special place where each and every moment is momentous. Mindfulness meditation asks us to suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness, to ourselves and others.

Watch this inspiring video about meditation! (VIDEO: “YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS”) Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of the research-backed stress-reduction program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, explains how mindfulness lights up parts of our brains that aren’t normally activated when we’re mindlessly running on autopilot.

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The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

Well, I'm a professional.

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Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

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At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.