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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a79da67 | What he really meant was something like, "Everything in the world is ultimately unsatisfying and unreliable because it won't last." -- | Dan Harris | ||
| 7afcc88 | Our entire lives, he argued, 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. It squawks away at us from the minute we open our eyes in the morning until the minute we fall asleep at night, if it allows us to sleep at all. Talk, talk, talk: the voice is constantly judging and labeling everything in its field of vision. Its targets aren't jus.. | Dan Harris | ||
| 23bc361 | In moments where I was temporarily able to suspend my monkey mind and simply experience whatever was going on, I got just the smallest taste of the happiness I'd achieved while on retreat. | Dan Harris | ||
| 967ca60 | 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. A central theme of the Buddha's "dharma" (which roughly translates to "teaching") revolved around the very word that had been wafting through my consciousness when I used to lie on my office couch, pondering the unpredictability of television news: "impermanence." | Dan Harris | ||
| e9a7906 | In his books, Tolle repeatedly denigrated the habit of worrying, which he characterized as a useless process of projecting fearfully into an imaginary future. "There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist." | Dan Harris | ||
| 94c9cf8 | Marturano recommended something radical: do only one thing at a time. When you're on the phone, be on the phone. When you're in a meeting, be there. Set aside an hour to check your email, and then shut off your computer monitor and focus on the task | Dan Harris | ||
| 3a73b0d | There's actually a term for this--"hedonic adaptation." When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations," | Dan Harris | ||
| ca01665 | Alles zal vergeten worden en ten slotte verdwijnen en dan nooit gebeurd zijn. En het is deze gedachte, die hem plotseling de verdorven kracht geef om te doen wat hem te doen staat. | Harry Mulisch | ||
| 726fc1d | You have a quote that I love. You say, 'Most of one's own troubles, worries, and sadness come from self-cherishing, self-centeredness.' But don't we need to be somewhat self-centered in order to succeed in life?" "Self-cherishing, that's by nature," he said (by which I assumed he meant it's "natural"). "Without that, we human beings become like robots, no feeling. But now, practice for development of concern for well-being of others, that a.. | Dan Harris | ||
| f07d812 | often it's not the unknown that scares us, it's that we think we know what's going to happen--and that it's going to be bad. But the truth is, we really don't know." The smart play, she said, was to turn the situation to my internal advantage. "Fear of annihilation," she said, "can lead to great insight, because it reminds us of impermanence and the fact that we are not in control." | Dan Harris | ||
| 91c2982 | 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 your.. | Dan Harris | ||
| 0720682 | The price of security is insecurity." Dr. Jay Harris," | Dan Harris | ||
| 8b8bde1 | It's like, you write a book, you want it to be well received, you want it to be at the top of the bestsellers list, but you have limited control over what happens. You can hire a publicist, you can do every interview, you can be prepared, but you have very little control over the marketplace. So you put it out there without attachment, so it has its own life. Everything is like that. | Dan Harris | ||
| 901efb1 | It was the longest, most exquisite high of my life, but the hangover came first. | Dan Harris | ||
| 6a95f30 | Perhaps the most powerful Tollean insight into the ego was that it is obsessed with the past and the future, at the expense of the present. We "live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation," he wrote. We wax nostalgic for prior events during which we were doubtless ruminating or projecting. We cast forward to future events during which we will certainly be fantasizing. But as Tolle pointed out, it is, quite literally, always Now... | Dan Harris | ||
| 20124b5 | Focusing on the breath as a way to temporarily stop the thinking was like using a broom to sweep a floor crawling with cockroaches. You could clear the space briefly, but then the bugs came marauding back in. | Dan Harris | ||
| 935b25b | Ca ne fait pas grand bien de s'installer dans les reves en oubliant de vivre, souviens-toi de ca. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7f8c0c7 | The Self-Interested Case for Not Being a Dick | Dan Harris | ||
| a4f152b | Mark had helped me see that the point of getting behind the waterfall wasn't to magically solve all of your problems, only to handle them better, by creating space between stimulus and response. It was about mitigation, not alleviation. | Dan Harris | ||
| 1ddb318 | It's not me telling you," she said. "It's neuroscience that would say that our capacity to multitask is virtually nonexistent. Multitasking is a computer-derived term. We have one processor. We can't do it." "I think that when I'm sitting at my desk feverishly doing seventeen things at once that I'm being clever and efficient, but you're saying I'm actually wasting my time?" "Yes, because when you're moving from this project to this project.. | Dan Harris | ||
| bb4c796 | These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." | Dan Brown | ||
| 1b9ca39 | What's with you and the whole meditation thing?" Trying to avoid another long, unsuccessful answer, I blurted out, "I do it because it makes me 10% happier." The look on her face instantly changed. What had been a tiny glimmer of scorn was suddenly transformed into an expression of genuine interest. "Really?" she said. "That sounds pretty good, actually." | Dan Harris | ||
| ff44c9b | We live so much of our lives pushed forward by these "if only" thoughts, and yet the itch remains. The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness." | Dan Harris | ||
| 16b089a | We "live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation," he wrote. We wax nostalgic for prior events during which we were doubtless ruminating or projecting. We cast forward to future events during which we will certainly be fantasizing." | Dan Harris | ||
| ce66268 | meditation is simply exercise for your brain. It's a proven technique for preventing the voice in your head from leading you around by the nose. | Dan Harris | ||
| 195adae | 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 | Dan Harris | ||
| 98d0968 | Self-cherishing, that's by nature," he said (by which I assumed he meant it's "natural"). "Without that, we human beings become like robots, no feeling. But now, practice for development of concern for well-being of others, that actually is immense benefit to oneself." A light went off in my head. "It seems like you're saying that there is a self-interested, or selfish, case for being compassionate?" "Yes. Practice of compassion is ultimate.. | Dan Harris | ||
| a64c2db | Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon. Public health revolutions can happen rapidly. Most Americans didn't brush their teeth until after world war 2 after soldiers were demanded to maintain oral hygiene. Exercise didn't get popular until science proved its benefits. Mindfulness, I had come to believe, could, in fact, change the world. | happiness meditation mindfulness public-health revolution | Dan Harris | |
| 3123560 | I wanted to do it again tonight. When I had Agent Harris unconscious in the bathroom -- I wanted to hurt him and crush him and cut him until you couldn't even tell who he was anymore, but I didn't. Because I don't let a broken brain tell me what to do. Because who you're supposed to be has nothing to do with who you actually are. | Dan Wells | ||
| f4a1e6f | Algebra-Readpages 7-14. Do the odd numbered problems. From what I've seen, they're all pretty odd. | funny | David Lubar | |
| 4be52ae | He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 6ebe41d | One just had to be content with what had happened so far. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 7487192 | Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 4f98e94 | Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 6020769 | As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the ageold questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 09a442e | at seventy-seven, what did a few wrinkles matter? A small price to pay for an energetic and active old age. She drove in the last stake, | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 7508629 | As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 52500b1 | sloped down to distant cliffs; farmland, ribboned with yellow gorse, broken by outcrops of granite, and patchworked into dozens of small fields. Like a quilt, thought Virginia, and saw the pasture fields as scraps of green velvet, the greenish gold of new-cut hay as shining satin, the | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 7cc1c69 | Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 718949e | The Scottish clan system was an extraordinary thing. No man was any man's servant, but part of a family. Which is why your average Highlander does not walk through life with a chip on his shoulder. He is proud. He knows he is as good as you are, and probably a good deal better. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 0582fd7 | Oh well. Better out than in, | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 518598c | I know we didn't have very long together, but what we did have was special. Not many people achieve such happiness, even for a year or two. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 55a9d24 | but also for the sweater most expertly knitted from hand-spun wool, | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| d40f51a | For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood. | William W. Johnstone |