Dan Harris quotes:

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

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.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.â?¦ If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what youâ??ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

Thereâ??s no point in being unhappy about things you canâ??t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.