“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
What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make… — Dan Harris Alternatives Copy Share Image
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. — Dan Harris Feet Copy Share Image
Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”) — Dan Harris Building Copy Share Image
“None of us has moved very far from the seven-year-old who vigilantly watches to see who got more.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can. — Dan Harris Being unhappy Copy Share Image
“When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations, and yet the primordial void goes unfilled.” — Dan Harris Good thing 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
“unpredictability of my profession with my brother recently, he told me about scientific studies where lab rats were rewarded with food pellets… — Dan Harris Time Copy Share Image
“I was always hurtling headlong through the day, checking things off my to-do list, constantly picturing completion instead of calmly and carefully… — Dan Harris Enjoying The Process 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 Buddhism 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 Mental health 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 Buddhism Copy Share Image
“best solutions often come when you allow yourself to get comfortable with ambiguity.” — Dan Harris Problem solving 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
“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
“If you stay in the moment, you’ll have what is called spontaneous right action, which is intuitive, which is creative, which is… — Dan Harris Right action Copy Share Image
But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the… — Dan Harris Bed 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
“We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self,… — Dan Harris Dust to dust Copy Share Image
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