Drawing Boundaries, Mindfully and With Love

Twice this week, friends of mine have raised the issue of how to draw boundaries -- to say "no" -- when someone asks you a question that you don't want to answer or makes a request that you don't want to fulfill. In one scenario, the "intruding" person was a stranger, and in the other, the person was a friend or colleague. For many of us, our desire to be kind makes it hard to respond. We want to be nice and yet we feel put out by this demand. So the question becomes, how do you respond to th...