“I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.” Quote by Dan Harris
“Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.” TryingMindHardFocusMeditationOne ThingBreathsBerserkFocus On One Thing Author:Dan Harris
“The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.” BrainBreathsWanderComing BackCatchingCurls Author:Dan Harris
“The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.” LostMeditationRecoveringGetting Lost Author:Dan Harris
“If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.” IfsEasyEnlightenedCheatingMeditating Author:Dan Harris
“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.” ThinkingWayDoeEmotionWiseMeditationAreasCome UpMiserableAlternativesShitheadsCompartmentalizing Author:Dan Harris
“Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.” KeysHealthyAwake Author:Mariel Hemingway
“The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.” PeopleGivingSufferingVoiceIllnessMental Illness Author:Mariel Hemingway
“Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.” PeopleIfsNeedsTryingEndsSufferingCommunityBehindsTalkingShameEmbracePainfulCeaseDefinedDisorderStigmaInstability Author:Mariel Hemingway
“We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.” Way Author:Mariel Hemingway
“Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.” TryingHelpingFormHealingCompassionIllnessMental IllnessHelping Each Other Author:Mariel Hemingway