"The perch is the seed of stillness. Receptivity is the seed of awareness. And choice is the seed of surrender. In the beginning, these principles feel distinct, but with time, they become three facets of the same unified field of experience." - Josh Summers

Natural selection did not program humans to be happy or to see the world accurately; it simply optimized our ability to get our genes into the next generation. This calculus extracts a cost on our mental health, and mindfulness is a medicinal practice heals this equation.

The rapid acceleration of technological evolution paired with the slower evolution of human psychology poses a serious existential threat. Will human psychology evolve to avert the apocalypse? Robert Wright has thoughts to share.

"But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close friendship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness." - David Whyte

"The yin-yang symbol is not, therefore, what we call a dualism, but rather an explicit duality expressing an implicit unity." - Alan Watts

"Most people think there are a lot of bad people running around in the world. There aren't a lot of bad people, there are a lot of bad ideas and bad ideas are worse than bad people because bad ideas are contagious. Bad ideas get good people to do horrible things." - Sam Harris

"On the path we open to the experience of bad karma - created by ourselves and by others - and we turn it into good dharma, the development of compassion and wisdom." - Larry Rosenberg

"The untrained mind gets lost and follows these things; it forgets itself, and then we think that it is we who are upset or at ease or whatever. But really, this mind of ours is already unmoving and peaceful." - Ajahn Chah

"But imagine my surprise when, upon surrendering to wanting nothing, I am released from perceiving a lack, awakened by and to a want for nothing, instead."

"When everyone is doing better, everyone is doing better. And when life is precious, life is precious. Can we connect with this motivation?" -Jessica Locke