Dan Harris Quotes

#1. With uncontrived sincerity he said, "I want to know you." That was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to me.

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#2. 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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#3. In his books, Tolle repeatedly denigrated the habit of worrying, which he characterized as a useless process of projecting fearfully into an imaginary future. "There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist.

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#4. 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.

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#5. The Sufi Muslims say, "Praise Allah, but also tie your camel to the post." In other words, it's good to take a transcendent view of the world, but don't be a chump.

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#6. What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, "respond" rather than simply "react." In

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#7. It was the longest, most exquisite high of my life, but the hangover came first.

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#8. Overall, compassionate people tended to be healthier, happier, more popular, and more successful at work. Most

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

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#10. best solutions often come when you allow yourself to get comfortable with ambiguity.

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#11. Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

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#12. it is entirely possible to be depressed without being conscious of it. When you're cut off from your emotions, he said, they often manifest in your body.

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#13. 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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#14. Is this useful?" It's a simple, elegant corrective to my "price of security" motto. It's okay to worry, plot, and plan, he's saying - but only until it's not useful anymore.

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#15. So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?" "Oh yes. Yes.

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#16. There's actually a term for this - "hedonic adaptation." When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations,

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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 getting carried away.

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#20. Much of our inner dialogue is this constant reaction to experience by a selfish, childish protagonist.

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

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#22. Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."
Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.

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#23. Secrets and Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul

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#24. She nailed the method for applying mindfulness in acute situations, albeit with a somewhat dopey acronym: RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I: investigate N: non-identification "Recognize

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#25. 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.

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

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#27. 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

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#28. (Although I tried to always keep in mind something a friend had once told me: "Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they're out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.") At

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#29. 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.

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

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

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#32. I was always hurtling headlong through the day, checking things off my to-do list, constantly picturing completion instead of calmly and carefully enjoying the process.

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#33. The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.

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

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#35. 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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#36. The Price of Security is Insecurity--Until It's Not Useful

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#37. You can do your best and then, if things don't go your way, still become unconstructively upset, in a way that hinders your ability to bounce back. Dropping the attachment is the real trick.

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#38. The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of everyone else. Did this not explain some of my worrying at work?

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

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