music can reach those places where words alone can’t go. - Arianna Huffington

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

As Nicholas Kristof put it in The New York Times: “Cues of a hostile or indifferent environment flood an infant, or even a fetus, with stress hormones like cortisol in ways that can disrupt the body’s metabolism or the architecture of the brain. The upshot is that children are sometimes permanently undermined. Even many years later, as adults, they are more likely to suffer heart disease, obesity, diabetes and other physical ailments. They are also more likely to struggle in school, have short tempers and tangle with the law.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.