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Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Past Resolves Itself in the Present Moment

The past truly resolves itself when you can stand free of it in the present. Conceptually re framing your thoughts about the past can also help in many ways. But from my point of view, there is no real antidote to the most basic mental suffer that is better than insight into the illusoriness of the self around which all our suffering appears to be constellated.

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