Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

by Dan Harris

the voice in my head—and perhaps also yours—can be an asshole.

deliberate, daily reckoning with the voice in your head—that

Respond, not react: this

at times, a taste of a deep, ineffable unclenching.

our minds are trainable.

happiness is not just something that happens to you; it is a skill.

you can’t run from your baggage; you need to see it clearly, so that it doesn’t yank you around.

everyone’s got their own neurotic stuff.

tease apart our actual pain from our much larger resistance to the pain, which is where the majority of our tension and discomfort actually lives.

When you can see your mental patterns clearly, they don’t have as much power over you. It’s a hugely useful skill.

Getting lost and starting over is meditation, at least at first.

“Equanimity is the capacity to let your experience be what it is, without trying to fight it and negotiate with it. It’s like an inner smoothness or frictionlessness.”

thinking itself often tries to convince us how important it is.