What these divisive times ask for more than anything else is an ability to listen with the heart. When we learn to listen deeply to one another, not only do we get to know and connect with others, but it changes us. It changes you, because you’re not alone in your suffering, and it’s not your team or your people or your party or your side, it’s us, trying to find our way through it.

Meditation, Freedom, and the True Emptiness of Self
Meditation techniques are mental disciplines that allow us to calm, focus, and examine the mind. This de-conditioning process is a slowing down and observation of the usual mad-monkey stream of thoughts, perceptions, reactions, feelings.