Dan Harris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but theyâ€™re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.â€)
-- Dan Harris

#May #Demon #Building
Thereâ€™s no point in being unhappy about things you canâ€™t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
-- Dan Harris

#Unhappy #Being Unhappy
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.â€¦ If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what youâ€™ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.
-- Dan Harris

#Exercise #Past #Meditation
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.
-- Dan Harris

#Motivational #Loss #Men
But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my headâ€”the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could rememberâ€”was kind of an asshole.
-- Dan Harris

#Running #Lying #Night
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
-- Dan Harris

#Past #Feet
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 Harris

#Black #President #Add
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.
-- Dan Harris

#Motivational #Skills #Next
There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
-- Dan Harris

#Unhappy #Being Unhappy #Can't Change
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.
-- Dan Harris

#Cheating #Easy #Enlightened
The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.
-- Dan Harris

#Meditation #Getting Lost #Lost
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
-- Dan Harris

#Brain #Curls #Coming Back
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 Harris

#Wise #Thinking #Meditation
I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.
-- Dan Harris

#Bad Mood #Mood #Moron
Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.
-- Dan Harris

#Exercise #Simple #Meditation
Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.
-- Dan Harris

#Focus #Meditation #Mind

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