Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me. — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating. — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“meditation was now increasingly being viewed as a software upgrade for the brain.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond” rather than simply “react.”… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“She nailed the method for applying mindfulness in acute situations, albeit with a somewhat dopey acronym: RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I:… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness provides space between impulse and action, so you're not a slave to whatever neurotic obsession pops into your head.” — 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
“Mark also pointed out that mindfulness was a skill—one that would improve as I got more meditation hours under my belt. In… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“What’s with you and the whole meditation thing?” Trying to avoid another long, unsuccessful answer, I blurted out, “I do it because… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Meditation has countless benefits - from better health to increased focus to a deeper sense of calm - but the biggie is… — 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 brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Once you get the hang of it, the practice can create just enough space in your head so that when you get… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the best tool for neutralizing the voice in the head. It's a muzzle for the ego. Being mindful is an… — 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
“Seeing a problem clearly does not prevent you from taking action, he explained. Acceptance is not passivity. Sometimes we are justifiably displeased.… — 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
