7/2 Quote: Tagore

“Age considers; youth ventures.” ~Rabindranath Tagore

Mindfulness and Smartphones

Via Big Think: What’s the Latest Development? Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close off your posture to the world also close your attention, weakening your ability to engage the world around you. In an experiment, “researchers paid 75 participants to use one of a range of devices–iPod Touch […]

Why Matthieu Ricard is one of the happiest monks alive

Originally published on the yoga blog.  Matthieu Ricard has been a Buddhist monk for some 40 years since he left his life as a molecular geneticist in the 1960′s. He left it all behind to live a life of renunciation in the Himalayas. It was during this time, he says, that he learned how to be […]

9/22 Travel: Cherry Blossom Walk, Washington D. C.