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#156 Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What Is Ritual?

Ritual is probably our oldest human language. Ritual of meeting another being and signaling in some ritual way that you're not going to harm them. Or signaling in some way our connection to one another. And rituals are elemental. So I used it the image of a candle, which is fire, right? And just lighting a candle, and all of a sudden it changes the environment and how we're relating.

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