Sam Harris

What did I care if my friend was better looking or a better athlete than I was? If I could have bestowed those gifts on him, I would have.

The more we understand ourselves at the level of the brain, the more we will see that there are right and wrong answers to questions of human values.

Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves.

The problem is not thoughts themselves but the state of thinking without knowing that we are thinking.

Truly wanting him to be happy made his happiness my own.

n one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice

Being wisely selfish and being selfless can amount to very much the same thing.

how one uses one’s attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes.

The teachings of Buddhism and Advaita are best viewed as lab manuals and explorers’ logs detailing the results of empirical research on the nature of human consciousness.

The practice was first described in the Satipatthana Sut