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#110 — The Change Artist

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Are You Making Happy by the Joy of Others?

To be made happy by the smile some one you love is obviously an experience we all share. To extend that to all possible reasons why she could be smiling seems like a fairly heroic act gven the level of jealousy many people feel. Have you been able to cultivate this sympathetic compassion in yourself? Yes. But it's just ther conditions where it comes up against something else you seem to really care about, like monogamy. i told my wife at my funeral, it's totally up to you. Do they want a speech? Do they want just drink whatever they want? Whatever would give them the most happiness is what you should do.

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