When people think about meditation, they often think about cultivating a thoughtless experience. Casual meditators learn to produce such states for short periods and imagine if they kept at it ...

And--a special favorite of mine and Gandhi—to treat animals and the planet with nonviolence and caring. We’ll look at all of these in regard to their root causes and the kinds of approaches that ...

"Satyagraha," Philip Glass' at times magical — and at times maddening — meditation on the early career of Gandhi, is back at the Metropolitan Opera where it enjoyed a triumphant run three ...

Mathews points out there’s a meditation saying, often attributed to Gandhi, that on the days he is really busy, he meditates for 2 hours in the morning instead of 1.

Gandhi reportedly spent two hours in meditation each day -- one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening -- for more than 40 years. This became the bedrock for all his daily work for ...

The opera is essentially a meditation on a theme, that of Gandhi’s time in South Africa and chiefly, the concept of Satyagraha; a Sanskrit term that loosely translates as “life force,” the idea that ...

Practice Makes Perfect. As far as Watkins is concerned, Gandhi summed up the importance of meditation best when he said, “I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours ...

What could Gandhi teach me and us? Studying Gandhi helps me put my country into perspective. Gandhi spent decades endeavoring to free his country from British rule using only nonviolent methods.

"Satyagraha," Philip Glass' at times magical _ and at times maddening _ meditation on the early career of Gandhi, is back at the Metropolitan Opera where it enjoyed a triumphant run three years ago.