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#294 - John Vervaeke - Creating A Life Of Meaning & Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

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Is There a Hunger for Connection?

Every time i think about it, it makes me sort of wist it's like a hunger. It's lik it's the same way i imagine a smoking craving must be foro i've never smoked, but i imagine it must be the same way that a craving for nicotine works. That's that lack, that's that hunger for connection. I call that religio. And because religio originally meant to bind together, so that things belong together, but of course, it's one of the purported etymologies for the word religion, right? But it's that hunger, and something shaped it for you for a while, and it shaped it from just being a hunger into

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