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#327 - Transformative Experiences

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Suffering

I think there are all kinds of people in the world and I think there, you know, some people who maybe whatever state they're in as parents, if they were able to compare themselves to who they would have been without. That's so awful. There's a kind of state one can be in where it's weird, but like the suffering doesn't matter as much. But someone might say, look, what I'm saying is that the suffering that I've undergone till now and that I continue to undergo is part of who I am. And If they say that or something like that, it makes total sense to me because I would say that as a parent. It's just different

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