Dan Harris
Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)Collection: May
There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.Collection: Unhappy
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.Collection: Exercise
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Motivational
The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.Collection: Meditation
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.Collection: Past
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.Collection: Cheating
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.Collection: Brain
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.Collection: Wise
I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.Collection: Bad Mood
Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.Collection: Exercise
Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Obama Supporters