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Meditations on Meditating

Leon Leveau '26 discusses how meditation can help you take a step back from the overwhelming and often uncontrollable sequence of thoughts and actions that dominate our daily lives.

April 23, 2026

Campus Journal

My Swarthmore Journal: Come On, Breathe You Workaholic Swatties!

The greyish-white rocks crunch a bit as I wiggle and shove my feet under the gatherings of rocks. I’m trying to disappear. (But hiding my feet under the rocks probably won’t help with the fact that my body is still visible.) The

February 6, 2025

Opinion

A Meditation on Meditation

Our society pushes the idea that the more responsibilities we accept, the better and more successful we are. Since we live in a society that demands that we be the best, most fulfilled versions of ourselves, it often feels like we must

April 11, 2019

Arts & Features·Features

Self-Care at Swat: Spirituality and Centering the Self

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. On my

September 30, 2014

Campus Journal

Meditation and Mindfulness or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Everything

Many students can probably relate to Gloria Shepard’s feelings after her first few years teaching elementary school, regardless of whether or not they’ve ever worked with third and fourth graders. She taught for years, with stress piling up, until she discovered the

September 19, 2013

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Meditations on Meditating

My Swarthmore Journal: Come On, Breathe You Workaholic Swatties!

A Meditation on Meditation

Self-Care at Swat: Spirituality and Centering the Self

Meditation and Mindfulness or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Everything

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