On meditation Real Happiness, Sharon Salzberg Insight…

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“patients saw their health improve if they did volunteer work.”

— Dan Harris

“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

“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

“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

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

— Dan Harris

“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

“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

“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

“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