“Buddhist teachers Ronald Purser and Andrew Cage are even more forthright: The rapid mainstreaming of mindfulness has provided a domesticated and tame set of meditation techniques for mainly upper-middle-class and corporate elites so they may become more self accepting of their anxieties, helping them to 'thrive;' to have it all - money, power and ... See more

“(Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adiusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)”