1. Don’t Be a Jerk 2. When Necessary, Hide the Zen 3. Meditate 4. The Price of Security Is Insecurity—Until It’s Not Useful 5. Equanimity Is Not the Enemy of Creativity 6. Don’t Force It 7. Humility Prevents Humiliation 8. Go Easy with the Internal Cattle Prod 9. Nonattachment to Results 10. What Matters Most?

10% Happier

Harris' book, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Really Works – a True Story, was published in March 2014.

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Our entire lives are governed by a voice in our heads. This voice is engaged in a ceaseless stream of thinking—most of it negative, repetitive, and self-referential.

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The ego is never satisfied. No matter how much stuff we buy, no matter how many arguments we win or delicious meals we consume, the ego never feels complete.

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The ego thrives on drama. It keeps our old resentments and grievances alive through compulsive thought.

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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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As best I could understand it, the Buddha’s main thesis was that in a world where everything is constantly changing, we suffer because we cling to things that won’t last.

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We suffer because we get attached to people and possessions that ultimately evaporate.

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The route to true happiness 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.

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This is where the Buddhists diverged quite dramatically from self-help: They had an actual, practical program. It wasn’t expensive gimcrackery. No spendy seminars, no credit cards required. It was totally free.

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In a nutshell, mindfulness is the ability to recognize what is happening in your mind right now—anger, jealousy, sadness, the pain of a stubbed toe, whatever—without getting carried away by it.

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We can do more than just think; we also have the power simply to be aware of things—without judgment, without the ego. This is not to denigrate thinking, just to say that thinking without awareness can be a harsh master.

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Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall.

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RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I: investigate N: non-identification

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Bingo: respond not react.

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Sam once said in his speech to the angry, befuddled atheists, learn how to be happy “before anything happens.” This happiness is self-generated, not contingent on exogenous forces; it’s the opposite of “suffering.”

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The real superpower of meditation is not just to manage your ego more mindfully but to see that the ego itself has no actual substance. Close your eyes and look for it, and you won’t find any “self” you can put your finger on.

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... ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this useful’?

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Our life is the manifestation of our minds.

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The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.

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The brain, it turns out, is constantly changing in response to experience. It’s possible to sculpt your brain through meditation just as you build and tone your body through exercise—to grow your gray matter the way doing curls grows your bicep.

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The brain, the organ of experience, through which our entire lives are led, can be trained. Happiness is a skill.

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Studies showed that the best way to engineer an epiphany was to work hard, focus, research, and think about a problem—and then let go. Do something else.

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Mindfulness, I had come to believe, could, in fact, change the world.

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“Practice of compassion is ultimately benefit to you. So I usually describe: we are selfish, but be wise selfish rather than foolish selfish.”

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This clunky phrase “nonattachment to results” was my long-sought Holy Grail, the middle path, the marriage of “the price of security” and “the wisdom of insecurity.”

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Nonattachment to results + self compassion = a supple relentlessness that is hard to match. Push hard, play to win, but don’t assume the fetal position if things don’t go your way.

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“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.”

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Stefano Pessina

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

Robert Maillet

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

Susan Faludi

I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

Ana Ortiz

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Roger Bannister

I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

Penelope Cruz

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.

Robert Carlyle

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Carly Fiorina

I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

Amy Jackson

There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.

Ayman Odeh

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Kate Klise

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Sivamani

Fly without wings dream with open eyes.

Dejan Stojanovic

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

Justin Tuck

Dogma is no substitute for an inner religious experience.

Elizabeth Ann Robinson

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Mark McKinnon

A skeptic is one who knows too much for a fool, and too little for a wise man.

H. W. SHAW

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Leo Szilard

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self reflection and compassion.

Suzanolori Parks