The Funniest Conversation You'll Ever Hear About Achieving Inner Peace | Pete Holmes

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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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

Get the 10% with Dan Harris app here

Sign up for Dan's free newsletter here

Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/10HappierwithDanHarris

2026-03-04 70 min
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