A Backlash: True or False? Before we answer that question, it seems the concern by a number of mindfulness experts is that the science is being sensationalized and mindfulness as it is conveyed today is a commodity that is being sold for all the wrong reasons. When you trace mindfulness back to its roots, you’ll find that it is a practice among many in life to create freedom around suffering. When this happens there is complete peace and ultimately this will be healing to all beings....

In case you don’t know, Google just recently launched Android 13 to the masses, so the platform upgrade is going to be making its way to different devices as the months go by. We can expect Samsung to be among the first to push the update to its phones. That being said, there are those companies that take their sweet time updating their phones, and it seems like Nothing will be one of those companies....

Brian punched in my hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at his direction—he called out the commands…LEFT 20 DEGREES RUDDER…STEADY AS SHE GOES… and I repeated them out loud—I steered this very large ship through the Halifax harbor and brought it alongside the dock at the bottom of the street I live on. As we pitched on the waves, I could actually feel it in my stomach. Very cool. Though my brother and I were the only ones on “the bridge” that afternoon, a real bridge could be crowded....

That’s such a far cry from the rugged individualism many of us grew up with. In high school, I remember reading Emerson’s essay “On Self-Reliance” with delight. Its quintessentially American view urging us to avoid conformity and trust your own voice. And I did. But now, that bold individualism doesn’t feel so alluring. What’s calling now—individually, collectively— is banding together. What’s so clear is the need to support one another, to bring kindness where there is pain, generosity where there is need, vulnerability where there is hardness, all softened, smoothed, and strengthened by love, the loving-kindness of interconnection....

According to a study by Harvard psychologists, telling the truth is the more challenging of the two—but only for those who are also willing to cheat. Researchers invited participants to play a game in which they could, if they wanted to, lie for profit. Every round, the participants had to report whether they had correctly guessed the answer—but only after they saw what the answer was. If they guessed correctly, they earned money....