Waking Up

“well that all changed when I read Sam Harris's amazing 2014 book waking up a guide to spirituality without religion it's a rigorous scientific exploration of spirituality”

“I'd love to talk about your book waking up and I'm going to say something that I literally have never said before about any book and that is that I think waking up is important”

“I'd love to talk about your book waking up and I'm going to say something that I literally have never said before about any book and that is that I think waking up is important and it's important in the sense that I think it can have a large and a positive impact on many people's lives”

“and while there are I'm sure thousands of books on meditation and mindfulness your book waking up is the only one I've ever run into that I could read through my scientific mind and not feel embarrassed about thinking that I could pursue spirituality”

“that was the experience for me that rattled me out of my cage of scientific rationality and brought me to waking up to which I'm you know incredibly grateful to have discovered you talk in waking up about the very different roles of the right and the left sides of the brain”

“in his book waking up he goes further speculating on the possibility that the right side of our brain is more or less enslaved by the left side of our brain because we're so dependent on language”

“It's the mundane daily uncertainty and ambient malaise, as you're reading another book on meditation and sitting down, listening to Sam Harris tell you to focus on your breath.”

“and I I think that you make it very well in waking up which I told you before we'd started I think I've gifted my mum every Christmas for the last three years which has been a great assistance in me being able to get something delivered digitally the Night Before Christmas”

“waking up by some Harris I must have listened to it to another two times this year which was great”

“there's a a thing that's been going through my head some Harris in his book waking up talks about an individual”

“I'm also now rereading waking up by Sam Harris which is an absolutely fantastic exploration into the sense of self the nature of our own consciousness and meditation and spirituality without religion”

“because you may remember Ben Affleck was on Real Time with Bill Maher when sam Harris the the neuroscientist and really mindful thinker was on to talk about his book waking up a guide to spirituality without religion”

“yeah it sounds a lot like uh the book by Sam Harris who's one of my one of my favorite oh the book's right there Sam Harris waking up a GU I quote it I quote it often oh there you go a guide to spirituality without religion”

“This is what I asked what I asked Sam who's under you know such assault constantly from all these people and wrote a book called waking up spirituality without religion”

“do you have any spiritual practices in your own life or how do you get some sort of the closest that I would come to spirituality would be to sit on a beach in southern California”

“He was on that show to discuss his book called Waking Up, which is a spiritual guide to uh it's a guide to spirituality without religion.”

“waking up by sam harris”

“I mean one of the points that sam Harris mutual friend of ours great podcaster great writer has made in his book waking up which was one of his many books but I think my favorite is that you know in the West we've developed an intellectual and scientific culture that is really robust and has changed the world”

“has made in his book waking up which was one of his many books but I think my favorite”

“So he was on that show to discuss his book called Waking Up, which is a spiritual guide to uh it's a guide to spirituality without religion.”

“Sam Harris, waking up, a guide to spirituality. And that spirituality should be in quotes. Put scare quotes on there without religion.”

“I really feel, you know, I read a book last year called Wake Up, and at the start of it, I told the story of several thousand years ago—people existed in tribes, and they all had the same haircuts, the same clothes, or whatever, you know—loincloths they were wearing.”

“I don't know him personally, so public stuff notwithstanding, that's not important to me, but 'Waking Up' and I took an online course with Robert Wright, who wrote 'Why Buddhism is True.'”

“Sam Harris had this really beautiful idea about the balance of being and becoming that was really lovely, but tactically, I have to say I'm struggling to nail that balance.”

“and I I think that you make it very well in waking up which I told you before we'd started I think I've gifted my mum every Christmas for the last three years which has been a great assistance in me being able to get something delivered digitally the Night Before Christmas I highly highly recommend that everyone go and”

“That's what we do; everyone listening and watching; the podcast is called Making Sense. The app is called Waking Up, and the book has the same title.”

“and I quote from Sam Harris's the opening pages of waking up you know I took ecstasy and I'm sitting there on the couch with my buddy”

“yeah it sounds a lot like uh the book by Sam Harris who's one of my one of my favorite... oh the book's right there Sam Harris waking up a GU... a guide to spirituality without religion”

“I think this that is it the guy that climbed the bell tower that Sam Harris uses in his in his book waking up”

“Well I get some Harris [ __ ] hit the nail on the head... much of our lives are taken up learning how to live once we find an approximation of it we stick at that for the rest of our days”

“and I'm like using like Sam Harris's waking up app and stuff to keep my meditation going and everything thing and stuff like that helps a lot because it's like are you really aware of what's going on”

“so I had that book which you're holding waking up which is the um uh which is where I talk about my experience in meditation and just how I fit it into a a scientific secular worldview”

“I mean that's why many people you I you know I've titled my book and my app waking up”

“In the beginning when you're practicing, what I tend to teach in 'Waking Up' is a technique called mindfulness, which most people engage dualistically at first.”

“As the host of the "Making Sense Podcast," creator of the Waking Up App, and the author of many seminal books on human nature and the human mind, including "The End of Faith," "The Moral Landscape," "Lying," "Free Will," and "Waking Up."”

“As the host of the "Making Sense Podcast," creator of the Waking Up App, and the author of many seminal books on human nature and the human mind, including "The End of Faith," "The Moral Landscape," "Lying," "Free Will," and "Waking Up," he has had a significant impact.”

“he has authored five five New York Times bestselling books, including The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.”

“perhaps best known these days as the author of waking up and the founder of the meditation app of the same name”

“His books include The End of Faith: The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up.”

“Well, so I I did write the book version of this content or or certainly most of this content. So I I have a book waking up”

“he's the host of the making sense podcast and the author of many seminal books on human nature and the human mind including the end of faith the moral landscape lying free will and waking up”

“15 minutes a day that's sam harris's thing 15 minutes a day every day”

“Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His latest book "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" is available now.”

“My friend Sam Harris, author, awesome dude, martial artist and author of Waking Up, a guide to spirituality without religion.”