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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?

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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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Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.
Natascha McElhone
Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad and that's why I call you dad because you are so special to me.
Wade Boggs
The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.
Jane Goodall
When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.
Kane O'Hara
It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
Tamra Davis
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
Harvey Pekar
I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
Dries van Noten
I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
David A. Stewart
The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
Philip Yancey
Every film deserves its own unique look.
Jonathan Demme
I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.
Louis Oosthuizen
There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
Peter Max
Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.
Sex and the City
When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.
Joel Parkinson
You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.
Billy Corgan
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Joseph Conrad
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
Ernie Fletcher
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. Wells
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.
Pope Francis
We are all born like Catholics...in limbo without religion.
Yann Martel