A few years ago, Roberto, a student in the yoga and meditation class I taught at San Quentin State Prison, described how it felt to go up for parole and face the families of his victims. He had, before age 20, along with another person killed a man and injured another in an attempted car burglary that turned violent. The murder happened in mere seconds, with almost no forethought. He had since spent almost 30 years behind bars doing transformative inner work, including 10 years of yoga and emotional intelligence training. He had gleaned from his life experiences the hard-won qualities of earnestness and wisdom. …