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Sam Harris ON: How To Break Your Social Media Habits & Ways to Master Your Anxious Thoughts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

CHAPTER

The Impermanence Problem

There are really two sides to it. There's your own death and then there's the deaths of everyone you care about. And those are really different problems in a way. So when I think of the experience of having those close to me die, that's already happened. You're desperate to lose your scene and hearing and smelling and tasting and thinking of it. But we yearn for it. It is somewhat paradoxical that people are terrified to experience themselves and they're terrified to experience in the case of losing the people they love.

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