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The only necessary ingredient of your mindfulness practice is you take yourself out of the need to be productive. Take yourself out of your thoughts.

We can develop all the technologies we want. But if our motivations, beliefs, and ways of perceiving the world stay stagnant, we’ll still be the same.

Being truly kind is about making service to others more important than being liked.

We are seeing another polarization within a polarization featuring all the same dynamics we’ve come to see between the American left and right: contempt, ridicule, purity tests, an assumption of bad intentions, and blame.

The work is not in convincing those who don’t think like us to think differently. The work is in encouraging those who do to step up and act.

What necessary questions have not been asked here as both sides hurl their insults at one another?

What if not only are both compassion and consequences absolutely necessary for a functioning society, but they actually reinforce another?

How will we want future generations to remember us? Will we want to be defined by our most evil behaviors whose evils, for whatever reason, we couldn’t fully see?

Whether or not we can see change, see progress, see our destination, has no bearing on whether we are actually making meaningful progress.