Dan Harris Quotes

Meditation is simply exercise for your brain. It’s a proven technique for preventing the voice in your head from leading you around by the nose.

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 stare into the abyss and realize that so much of what we do in life...

Research shows that firm but kind is the smarter play. People trained in self-compassion meditation are more likely to quit smoking and stick to a diet. They are better able to bounce back from misste...

Mindfulness is an inborn trait, a birthright. It is, one could argue, what makes us human.

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem, largely because its most prominent proponents talk as if they have a perpetual pan flute accompaniment. If you can get past the cultural baggage, though,...

I could see the value of recognizing thoughts for what they are—fleeting, gossamer, unsubstantial—but aren’t some thoughts connected to concrete realities that need to be addressed?

If you stay in the moment, you’ll have what is called spontaneous right action, which is intuitive, which is creative, which is visionary, which eavesdrops on the mind of the universe.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

His favorite book, by an ancient sage

The price of security is insecurity.

It’s neuroscience that would say that our capacity to multitask is virtually nonexistent. Multitasking is a computer-derived term. We have one processor. We can’t do it.

The price of security is insecurity. Dr. Jay Harris,

The Buddha’s main thesis was that in a world where everything is constantly changing, we suffer because we cling to things that won’t last.

The Self-Interested Case for Not Being a Dick

In fact, when you're mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop gett...

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

Everyone laughs. Another slogan says, ‘I don’t let anything stand in the way of my pleasure.’ The best one of all, he says, pausing for effect, in a wait-for-it kind of way, chuckling to himself as h...

It’s like, you write a book, you want it to be well received, you want it to be at the top of the bestsellers list, but you have limited control over what happens. You can hire a publicist, you can do...

We live so much of our lives pushed forward by these if only thoughts, and yet the itch remains. The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness. Joseph