“I was not into meditation one bit. I thought it was a fad. I thought you had to eat nuts and raisins, and I didn’t want any part of it.”

—DAVID LYNCH, on his initial skepticism about the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM). The film director's David Lynch Foundation teaches TM for free to troubled students, prisoners, veterans, the homeless and others. According to scientific studies over the last decade, the technique can reduce hypertension, obesity and diabetes among heart disease patients and may improve cognitive development. [via The New York Times]