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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

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Meditation Is the Great Equalizer

We're constantly deferring our sense of this is it. We just have these moments on the calendar where we think, okay, this is where it's all going to land. Unless you have a mind that can really pay attention, really cut through the chatter, really sink into the present moment, you can't even enjoy those moments as they should be enjoyed. It's like there's just a mirage like quality to every future attainment and every future breakthrough and every future peak experience. You never quite arrive until you cease to step over the present moment in search of the next thing.

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