“It was the longest, most exquisite high of my life, but the hangover came first.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain. — Dan Harris Brain Copy Share Image
“Everything in the world is ultimately unsatisfying and unreliable because it won’t last.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me. — Dan Harris Brain Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants the same thing—happiness—but we all go about it with varying levels of skill.” — Dan Harris Happiness Copy Share Image
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating. — Dan Harris Cheating Copy Share Image
“apt old quote from Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” — Dan Harris Life Copy Share Image
“They worried that mindfulness would simply create better baby killers and robber barons.” — Dan Harris Anxiety Copy Share Image
“They had a suggestion for me: I should go on a retreat. Recognizing the look of dread on my face, they acknowledged… — Dan Harris Fear 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 Meditation Copy Share Image
Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in… — 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 Brain 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
“To my surprise, Epstein seemed to be arguing that Buddhism was better than seeing a shrink. Therapy, he said, often leads to… — Dan Harris Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind… — Dan Harris Easier said than done Copy Share Image
“unpredictability of my profession with my brother recently, he told me about scientific studies where lab rats were rewarded with food pellets… — Dan Harris Science Copy Share Image
“I had long assumed that ceaseless planning was the recipe for effectiveness, but Marturano's point was that too much mental churning was… — Dan Harris Bad decisions Copy Share Image
“While I may not have been physically addicted, I was certainly psychologically hooked. I missed getting high so badly that it was… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an… — Dan Harris Friendship 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“The Way of the Worrier 1. Don’t Be a Jerk 2. (And/But . . .) When Necessary, Hide the Zen 3. Meditate 4. The Price of Security Is… — Dan Harris Creativity 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 Confidence Copy Share Image
“Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of… — Dan Harris Striving 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of… — Dan Harris Identity Copy Share Image
“If you’re never looking up, I now realized, you’re always just looking around.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“meditation was now increasingly being viewed as a software upgrade for the brain.” — Dan Harris Brain Copy Share Image
I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being. — Dan Harris Bad mood Copy Share Image
“Some of the only times I could recall being fully present were when I was in a war zone or on drugs.” — Dan Harris Memory Copy Share Image
“The Sufi Muslims say, "Praise Allah, but also tie your camel to the post." In other words, it's good to take a… — Dan Harris Islam Copy Share Image
“I’m thinking: Yes, right—there is a point to sitting around all day with your eyes closed: to gain some control over the… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists had a helpful analogy here. Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts… — Dan Harris Buddhism 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 Compassion 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 Buddhism 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 Meditation 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way… — Dan Harris Better man 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 Baggage Copy Share Image
“faces in Renaissance art. Heart pounding. Back. Bird. Hands. Feet. Heart. Back, back, bird, feet, bird, bird, bird. Feet, hands, feet, feet,… — Dan Harris Faces 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 Cancer Copy Share Image
