Dan Harris Quotes
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But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.
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The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
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Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)
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The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.
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When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
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If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.
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Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.
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There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
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Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.
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What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.