Dan Harris Quotes

Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker.

Many of us labor under the delusion that we’re permanently stuck with all of the difficult parts of our personalities—that we are hot-tempered, or shy, or sad—and that these are fixed, immutable trait...

Axelrod responded, All we can do is everything we can do.

Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon. Public health revolutions can happen rapidly. Most Americans did...

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can. To

We are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human consciousness, but they won’t be talking about it in the news tonight. —Eckhart Tolle, self-help guru Open

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

Self-cherishing, that’s by nature, he said (by which I assumed he meant it’s natural). Without that, we human beings become like robots, no feeling. But now, practice for development of concern for we...

I’d be loath to call what I’m feeling spiritual or mystical. Those terms connote—to me, at least—otherworldliness or unreality. By contrast, what’s happening right now feels hyperreal, as if I’ve been...

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

Buddhists were always talking about how you have to 'let go,' but what they really meant is 'let it be.

We are constantly murmuring, muttering, scheming, or wondering to ourselves under our breath, wrote Epstein. ‘I like this. I don’t like that. She hurt me. How can I get that? More of this, no more of...

Write down this quote from Jon Kabat-Zinn and put it up on your wall: Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.

There’s actually a term for this—hedonic adaptation. When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations,

When you squelch something, you give it power. Ignorance is not bliss.

Repeat the following phrases: May you be happy, May you be healthy, May you be safe, May you live with ease. Do this slowly. Let the sentiment land. You are not forcing your well-wishes on anyone

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, we can, as Sam once said in his speech to the angry, befuddled atheist...

The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.

I do know one thing for sure: there’s much more for me to do. Whether or not 100% happy is achievable, I can definitely be more than 10% happier—and I’m excited to

Then it clicked. Per usual, Mark’s advice was sound, even if it took me a while to absorb it. Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final out...