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"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"-- "A new book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor...

Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our inner-most feelings and challenges our habits of self-judgment. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things. Meditation opens the door to real and accessible happiness....

A study course on Vipassanna ("Insight") meditation which teaches the foundations of mindfulness, the Eightfold Path, developing the ability to listen to your inner self, proper sitting postures, working with energies and emotions, various meditaton exercises and the integration of meditation into one's daily life.

Meditating on the weddings she has attended in Elm Creek Manor throughout the years on the morning of her daughter Caroline's wedding day, Sarah McClure evaluates the symbolic features on a painstakingly made wedding quilt designed to display the signatures of beloved guests.

Jack Kornfield guides listeners through medications created specifically to ease physical and emotional suffering and activate a powerful capacity for restoring oneself to wholeness. Listeners join this leading meditation teacher and psychologist for a systematic teaching on the healing power of attention, plus other essential practices.

"A revolutionary new approach to meditation: a mindfulness of thinking that accepts and investigates the thoughts that arise as you meditate--from the author of Unlearning Meditation. In most forms of meditation, the meditator is instructed to let go of thoughts as they arise. As a result, thinking is often taken, unnecessarily, to be something misguided or evil. This approach is misguided, says Jason Siff. In fact, if we allow thoughts to arise...