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

by Dan Harris

the goal is not to clear your mind but to focus your mind—for a few nanoseconds at a time—and whenever you become distracted, just start again. Getting lost and starting over is not failing at meditation, it is succeeding.

respond wisely to things, instead of reacting impulsively.

Respond, not react: this is a game changer.

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

“Equanimity is the capacity to let your experience be what it is, without trying to fight it and negotiate with it.

Prapañca is when something happens in the present moment—a stray comment, a bit of bad news, a stubbed toe, whatever—and you immediately extrapolate to some catastrophic future.

for years my body was just an appendage my mind dragged around behind me, forcing it to do stupid shit.