Elephant Books

08/27/2025

Today is a reminder that while we all want nice air to breathe, healthy water to drink, a stable planet for our children to grow up on, and for our children to be safe...we vote for politicians and support corporations that do the exact opposite. Again and again.

08/13/2025

"Today was one of those quietly awful days. The kind that doesn’t deserve to make headlines but can still sit heavy on a person. There’s no doubt in my mind that this will pass and tomorrow will be better...but today, for a moment, life sucked for me."

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06/16/2025

"If I am to understand…that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin..."

With Ariel mermaiding about again, and Rings of Power by Amazon (ugh, it's like Mordor doing a doc on the Shire) out, folks are talking about diversity, and representation, and lack thereof. So, lest...

06/11/2025

"Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools..."
has been coming up a lot lately:

For the inevitable up and downs in your life: this is character, a reminder of what matters: If, by Rudyard Kipling. This poem hung on the wall of Marpa House when I was younger. It's since disappea...

05/31/2025

  This is what you shall do: dismiss whatever insults your own soul. ~ Walt Whitman ~ The full quote is worth posting on your wall, setting to memory, reading to children and reminding the young...

03/04/2025

"For years, I secretly hated this quote."

Have you heard that famous quote by Thich Nhat Hanh about mindfully washing dishes? For years, I secretly hated that quote.

03/04/2025

Meditation and mindfulness not only *can* help us continue to show up, care, and be at peace with ourselves and these times—they *do* help.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. ~ Chögyam Trungpa Waylon Lewis leads Shamata meditation instruction at Camp elephant (our HQ) during Boulder Startup Week. Meditation is a practice y...

02/26/2025

Buddhism 101: Books we Recommend.

Most people don't really want to become Buddhist, or any religion particularly, but everyone wants to be happy. ~ Waylon Lewis Buddhism 101: Books we Recommend. If you want to check out Buddhism or l...

02/18/2025

"Jim Carrey explains Depression in the Best Way I’ve ever Heard."

When I think of a great Buddhist teacher, Jim Carrey isn't the first to come to mind...but damn:

02/11/2025

"⁠I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.⁠

I would like to go to sleep each night by thanking you for being with me,

And wake each morning pleasantly surprised to find you are in my life,

I would like to feel admiration for the littlest things you do, and how

Forever is not important to me—but this is." ~ Waylon H. Lewis, Things I would like to do with You.

Valentine's discount is here:

The official Elephant Journal shop, offering Waylon Lewis' book "Things I Would Like To Do With You" and a variety of eco and artisan goods and apparel.

01/20/2025

"The words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played like a soundtrack to the values that were my childhood and now, in my adult life. In news reels that played his courageous, resounding, and beautiful voice, his words were not just those of an African-American pastor who sang the words of Civil Rights for Blacks, but narrated the feelings and dreams of all of those who sought a better life, and even for my own mixed race children who look up to me for solace and spirit today."

His words prove that what is spoken, what is written, and what is said out loud for others to hear can make a difference, as well as change a generation and more to come because of their integral truth, uncommon and intense honesty, and humble sincerity.

01/10/2025

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