The Path to Now: Meditation, Margins, and the Model of Progress

The journey is worth infinitely more than the destination; as it is along the inward path that one finds one's self and, with a pure mind and open heart, experiences the "Thunder of silence."

There are many ways to begin a journey. Mine did not start with a title, a degree, or a breakthrough insight. It began with silence—a silence that would eventually become my foundation, my teacher, and my most loyal companion.

A Life Shaped by Layers

I was not born into conventionality. I have not lived a 9-to-5 life for many, many years. My wife, Mina, a…