Dan Harris quotes
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“Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.â€)”
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“There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.”
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“Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Dan Harris (2014). “10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story”, p.8, Harper Collins
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“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 is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.”
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“But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.”
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“When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.”
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“Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.
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“Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.”
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“There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.”
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“If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.”
-- Dan HarrisSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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