“Everyone wants the same thing—happiness—but we all go about it with varying levels of skill.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“We live so much of our lives pushed forward by these "if only" thoughts, and yet the itch remains. The pursuit of… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“On meditation Real Happiness, Sharon Salzberg Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein On Buddhism and mindfulness in general Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart,… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“It’s like we’ve been enchanted,” he says. “We’ve been put under a spell—believing that this or that is going to be the… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“The root hap means “luck,” as in hapless or haphazard. What the science was showing was that our levels of well-being, resilience,… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“We now know that happiness, resilience, and compassion are skills, susceptible to training. You don't have to resign yourself to your current… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“in our seat, every bite of food, every pleasant daydream—is designed to avoid pain or seek pleasure. But if we can drop… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, happiness, and not being a jerk are skills I can hone the rest of my life—every day, every moment, until senility… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“But if we can achieve a deeper understanding of “suffering,” of the unreliability of everything we experience, it will help us appreciate… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon. Public health… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“retreat, with nothing to look forward to, nowhere to be, nothing to do, we are forced to confront the “wound of existence” head-on, to… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“It’s like we’ve been enchanted,” he says. “We’ve been put under a spell—believing that this or that is going to be the source of… — Dan Harris Copy Share
Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall.… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“They had a term, too, for that thing I did where something would bother me and I would immediately project forward to an unpleasant… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“Marturano recommended something radical: do only one thing at a time. When you’re on the phone, be on the phone. When you’re in a… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“I’m thinking: Yes, right—there is a point to sitting around all day with your eyes closed: to gain some control over the mind, to… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“in our seat, every bite of food, every pleasant daydream—is designed to avoid pain or seek pleasure. But if we can drop all that,… — Dan Harris Copy Share
Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me. — Dan Harris Copy Share
“Perhaps the most meaningful exchange I had on the subject was a completely random discussion with my uncle Martin at my parents’ annual summer… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“While I may not have been physically addicted, I was certainly psychologically hooked. I missed getting high so badly that it was the first… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“was elated and relieved, light-headed with glee. It was as if I had totally forgotten all of Joseph’s dharma talks about the impossibility of… — Dan Harris Copy Share
“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the emotional roller… — Dan Harris Copy Share
