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Author: [[Dan Harris]] Full Title: 10% Happier Category: #books It’s a fever swamp of urges, desires, and judgments. It’s fixated on the past and the future, to the detriment of the here and now. It’s If you’re never looking up, I now realized, you’re always just looking around. “Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”) 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 is continuous stress.” Apparently when one lives in the moment, one becomes unafraid of using terms like “transformational vortex to the infinite.” Epstein’s writings, it was all there: the insatiable wanting, the inability to be present, the repetitive, relentlessly self-referential thinking. Here pondering the unpredictability of television news: “impermanence.” The Buddha embraced an often overlooked truism: nothing lasts—including us. We and everyone we love will die. Fame fizzles, beauty fades, continents shift. Pharaohs are swallowed by emperors, who fall to sultans, kings, kaisers, and presidents—and it all plays out against the backdrop of an infinite universe in which our bodies are made up of atoms from the very first exploding stars. We

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10% Happier by Dan Harris presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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