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Dan Harris, born on July 26, 1971, is a renowned American journalist known for his unique style and in-depth coverage of news events.

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“The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better than our habitual state of clinging l, over time, the brain will want more and more mindfulness.”

Pleasure Brain Meditation Calm Present

Book:10% Happier

Source: 10% Happier

“If there was no such thing as security, then why bother with the insecurity?”

Book:10% Happier

Source: 10% Happier

“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.”

Life Struggle Optimism Present

Book:10% Happier

Source: 10% Happier

“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is consequential because frequent release of cortisol can lead to heart disease, diabetes, dementia, cancer, and depression.”

Health Depression Stress Cancer Diabetes Dementia Heart Disease Hormone Cortisol

Book:10% Happier

Source: 10% Happier

“We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self. But how can we truly be separate from the same world that created us? You can no more disconnect from the universe and it's inhabitants than a wave can extricate itself from the ocean.”

Self Universe Awareness Ocean Self Awareness Wave Separation

Book:10% Happier

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“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the emotional roller coaster and allow you to see your dramas and desires through a wider lens. To truly tame the 'monkey mind' and defeat our habitual tendency toward clinging, meditation was the prescription, and sitting and actively facing the 'voice in your head' mindfully for a few minutes a day might be the hardest thing you'll ever do. Accept that challenge and improve your life drastically. It's about mitigation, not alleviation. It's that simple. The only way out is through.”

Happiness Meditation Impermanence Clinging Monkey Mind Mitigation Voice In My Head

Book:10% Happier

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“He explained that frequent cocaine use increases the levels of adrenaline in the brain, which dramatically ups the odds of having a panic attack.”

Cocaine Panic Attacks Drugs Addiction

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

May Has Beens Building Demon Parking Parking Lot Push Ups

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“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.”

Body Bigs Motivational Turns Next Like You Revolution Skills Train Your Body Boards Gym Public Health

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Said Done Motivational Winning Left Loss Prepared Said And Done Better Man

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

Made Simple Brain Meditation Exercise

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

Stills Mood Moron Bad Mood

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

Trying Mind Hard Focus Meditation One Thing Breaths Berserk Focus On One Thing

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

Brain Breaths Wander Coming Back Catching Curls

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“The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.”

Lost Meditation Recovering Getting Lost

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

Ifs Easy Enlightened Cheating Meditating

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“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.”

Thinking Way Doe Emotion Wise Meditation Areas Come Up Miserable Alternatives Shitheads Compartmentalizing

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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.”

Firsts Kind Moments Running Remember Lying Night Voice Consciousness Fields Bed Late Commentary Voices In My Head

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

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

Unhappy No Point Can't Change Being Unhappy

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“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.”

Black President Accepting Add Paint Driven Opposition Supporter Refusal Prominent Obama Supporters

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“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.”

Ifs Problem Past Suffering Brain Meditation Exercise Baggage

Book:10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

Source: 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

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Born: July 26, 1971
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