By Danny Fisher — 2010
Danny Fisher in conversation with Buddhist psychotherapist and meditation teacher Miles Neale about the mainstreaming of mindfulness practice.
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CLEAR ALL
Often, when teaching a new idea or practice, it helps to try to boil it down to its essentials. Getting to the pith of things is very important and being able to do so in a way that reaches and sticks with others is a sign of genius.
As my spiritual journey deepened, friends fell away. As I shed one identity after another, I no longer identified with the people attached to them.
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