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#269 — Deep Time

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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You're Never Going to Accumulate Everything You Can't Do

The good life requires that you be able to locate some tranquillity, an acceptance and even happiness even in the midst of that. The satisfaction of satisfaction doesn't last in quite the way we sense it will by default. It's the becoming side of the equation which is always taken in yet again by the illusion that if we could only check all these boxes in t future, we will be satisfied. Whereas the being side recognizes that there is no real place to land beyond recognizing that this moment, with all that has been done and left undone, has to be, in some sense, the ground of our well being.

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