Sam Harris

Parents

"[Regarding a day full of outrage from the news:] Nobody thinks they want that, but we are all acting like it is exactly what we want."
"Bad ideas are what get good people to do terrible things." / On the 21st Century
"Meditation isn’t a thing you are doing. It’s a thing you are ceasing to do."
"On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice."
"People resist conlcusions that they don't like the taste of."
"Reason makes slaves of us all. …"
"True profundity is to be found not in guarding space or even time. The real profundity is being able to use attention in a way that is truly rewarding. ..."
"We are what we continually pay attention to."
"We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy."
"You are not condemned to be who you were yesterday."
"You can't become happy, you can only be happy."
“If you actually connect with consciousness as it is, in an ordinary moment, it is, it is as mysterious as anything ever is.”
“It takes a while to take your own advice.”
“Meditation is simply the absence of distraction.”
“The only problem with impermanence is clinging.”
Do You Really Have a Self?
Nondual Mindfulness - Transjective