What's the most important thing? The Practice: Keep your eyes on the prize. Why? Have you heard this saying? The most important thing is to remember the most important thing. What are the most important things to you? In your life as a whole? During a particular interaction with someone? Right this...
Today, we’re going to be answering two questions that explore how we can release our attachment to different experiences, and learn to let go....
Today, author and mindfulness teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares the one thing he does each day for his own well-being....
What's Your Heart Saying? The Practice: Speak from the heart. Why? One Christmas I hiked down into the Grand Canyon, whose bottom lay a vertical mile below the rim. Its walls were layered like a cake, and a foot-high stripe of red or gray rock indicated...
Oren Jay Sofer brings a unique and pragmatic perspective to living and speaking mindfully....
There is a very useful distinction between two different meanings, or connotations, of the word “victim.”...
The art of engaged life is to tap into healthy outrage, fieriness, fierce compassion, moral disgust, etc. without getting sucked into the “poisons” (Buddhist reference) of ill will, hatred, contempt, us-against-them tribalism....
What Are They Feeling? The Practice: Tune into others. Why? Imagine a world in which people interacted with each other like ants or fish. Imagine a day at work like this, or in your family, aware of the surface behavior of the people around you but...
