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The benefits of not being a jerk to yourself | Dan Harris

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The Struggle to Be a Better Person

"I wanted to get a sense of whether my inner work was having outer results. Was meditation making me a nicer person? That's why I signed up for the 360." The first 13 pages were dedicated to his sterling qualities. He also said meditation had made him more caring. But then came 26 pages of beatdown. "It got so bad that at one point my wife was reading it with me, got up and went to the bathroom and cried"

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