Dan Harris Quotes

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

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

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

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.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

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.

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.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

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.

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

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

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

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

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

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

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