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#376 - Beau Lotto - The Neuroscience Of Awe, Distraction and Anxiety

Modern Wisdom

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Do You Have the Desire to Have Awareness?

There's a quote that i love from one of the buddhist masters, and he says, the choice in life is between becoming the pain of becoming aware of our mental afflictions, and the pain of being ruled by them. Now, that awareness is only a first step, actualy, there's something that comes before awareness, which often people don't talk about, which is the desire to have awareness. And we all have those elements in us. The question is, do you have the desire to look? Now, once you've looked, the next step is, doyou have the desireto act upon it? Because that's where you can get distress. When they

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