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Book Quotes from 10% Happier by Dan Harris
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The Buddha captured it well when he said that anger, which can be so seductive at first, has “a honeyed tip” but a “poisoned root."
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May you be happy. May you be safe and protected from harm. May you be healthy and strong. May you live with ease.
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Everything in the world is ultimately unsatisfying and unreliable because it won’t last.
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Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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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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Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don’t waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome—so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. That, to use a loaded term, is enlightened self-interest.
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What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond” rather than simply “react.” In the Buddhist view, you can’t control what comes up in your head; it all arises out of a mysterious void. We spend a lot of time judging ourselves harshly for feelings that we had no role in summoning. The only thing you can control is how you handle it.
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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. And imagine living your whole life like that, where always this moment is never quite right, not good enough because you need to get to the next one. That is continuous stress.
