Episode 1109: The Funniest Conversation You'll Ever Hear About Achieving Inner Peace | Pete Holmes - 10% Happier with Dan Harris

The comedian on: connecting instead of separating, feeling whole, and the upside of being an affirmation addict.

Pete Holmes is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He created and starred in HBO's Crashing and hosted The Pete Holmes Show on TBS. He has released stand-up specials on HBO, Netflix, and Comedy Central, hosts the popular You Made It Weird podcast, and is the author of Comedy Sex God.

This episode is a live conversation recorded in NYC as part of a benefit for the amazing organization New York Insight Meditation Center.

In this episode we talk about:

How Pete Holmes's evangelical upbringing shaped his early ideas about fear, morality, and God
Psychedelics, awareness, identity and consciousness
Mysticism and metaphor versus literal belief
Meditation and different paths of practice
What meditation reveals about awareness, forgetting, and remembering
Being an affirmation addict
Service and helping others
Happiness versus peace of mind

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