Every time you take in the good, you build a little bit of neural structure. Doing this a few times a day — for months and even years — will graduall… - Rick Hanson

Richard and I both believe that something transcendental is involved with the mind, consciousness, and the path of awakening — call it God, Spirit, Buddha-nature, the Ground, or by no name at all. Whatever it is, by definition it’s beyond the physical universe. Since it cannot be proven one way or another, it is important — and consistent with the spirit of science — to respect it as a possibility.

Even if you, like me, have done things worthy of remorse, they do not wipe out your good qualities; you are still a fundamentally good person.

A person is a human body-mind as a whole, an autonomous and dynamic system that arises in dependence upon human culture and the natural world (Mackenzie 2009).