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#227 — Knowing the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Are You Suffering as an Eighteen Year Old?

i had many experiences of intense suffering, you know, but completely ordinate. For instance, after my girl friend broke up with me in collegeow, i was probably in some kind of clinical state of depression. And it was because i was thinking incessantly about what i had lost. If there's no space around this automaticity of thought, there's no alternative but to be living out the emotional implications of whatever the thought happens to be. I'm just a mere puppet being blown around by whatever this next train of thought would be, right? And that's everyone's condition.

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