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Why Does Work Dominate Our Lives? [Paul Millerd]

The Examined Life

CHAPTER

The Noble Truth of Buddhism: Desire Is Suffering

I think loving parents, lots of family around simple life. Like we didn't have much money when I was little. My dad worked a lot, did like overtime and weekend shifts. We had enough and like spent bountiful times of like fun with family. And like family really is important to me. I'm trying to build that now with my wife and daughter. For some reason I've never really had that. The hard thing is for a lot of people they have an idea or story about how life is supposed to go. That's why it's so interesting to talk about because this stuff is deep.

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