The Practice of Groundedness

Self-compassion serves as the bridge between accepting what is happening and taking wise action.

“Nothing I accept about myself can be used to diminish me,”

You serve as a rocket booster for the careers of [those] who work alongside you, while catapulting forward yourself.”

both of these studies went to great lengths to control for participants’ baseline health.

This required balancing daily tasks with an ability to step back, see and think clearly, and influence people en masse.

“The way practice works,” an anonymous Japanese Zen teacher once remarked, “is that we build up our practice, then it falls apart. And then we build it up again, and then it falls apart again. This is the way it goes.”

It’s not easy to give up a life of distraction for a life of presence. But you can make incremental progress.

It’s astonishing how much of our time, energy, and attention we devote toward tasks that do not serve us well.

Rarely have I regretted the additional effort it takes to coordinate schedules in order to run, hike, or lift weights with others. The short-term effect is that I always feel better afterward. The long-term effect is that some of my best friends are people whom I first met in the gym or on the trail.