Sublime

Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self.

Personality), I investigated different ways to reduce stress and build resilience and the one I found most effective was mindfulness.

Another powerful and primitive form of pain suppression is stress-induced analgesia

—Toni Packer

Eknath Easwaran, a meditation teacher whose writings on mindfulness are some of the most insightful I’ve ever read.