The Funniest Conversation You'll Ever Hear About Achieving Inner Peace | Pete Holmes
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello, everybody. I have to be diplomatic with what I'm about to say because I love all of our episodes, but some episodes are extra special. And this is one of them. This is genuinely one of my favorite interviews that I've done in a long time. I came into this conversation with high expectations, and those expectations were exceeded. |
| 0:39.9 | Let me say what I mean by that. I knew that my guest, the comedian Pete Holmes, would be hilarious. |
| 0:45.4 | What I did not expect was how wise and useful he would also be. Some of you probably know Pete Holmes |
| 0:52.6 | as the creator and star of crashing on HBO or the Pete Holmes show on TBS. |
| 0:58.0 | You may also know him from his many, many stand-up specials on HBO, Netflix, Comedy Central, etc., etc. |
| 1:04.0 | Or you may be aware that he's the host of a big podcast called You Made It Weird, or that he wrote a book called Comedy Sex God. |
| 1:16.0 | Long way of saying, this is a dude who's done a lot in the world, and that's why we wanted to have him on. |
| 1:17.2 | In this conversation, we talk about how his upbringing in an evangelical household shaped |
| 1:23.2 | his early ideas about fear, morality, and God. |
| 1:27.0 | Then we move on to psychedelics, awareness, identity, |
| 1:29.8 | and consciousness. We talk about mysticism, and we also talk about his meditation practice |
| 1:35.5 | and the various forms of meditation he's done. We talk about the fact that he's an affirmation |
| 1:41.3 | addict, the role of service and helping other people, the |
| 1:44.7 | difference between happiness and peace of mind, and much more. |
| 1:48.8 | Real quick, two things to say before we dive in. |
| 1:50.7 | First, this is a live conversation that we did in New York City as part of a benefit for |
| 1:56.4 | an amazing organization that you should check out. |
| 1:59.0 | It's called the New York Insight Meditation Center. |
| 2:01.6 | You can get more information on them by going to n.yimc.org. Second, if you want to meditate with me, |
| 2:08.4 | please check out my app, 10% with Dan Harris. We've got meditations from many of the world's |
| 2:13.4 | greatest teachers. We also do these weekly live meditation and Q&A sessions on video because there's |
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