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#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Importance of Losing Your Self-Contemplation

There's an experience that people have of losing their sense of self, say, and feeling at one with the universe or the world. "You can begin to feel that most of your suffering is not actually...it's not directly tied to bad things happening" It may be the case as I've argued ... there's no such thing as altruism in a true sense that you could have from a purely selfish standpoint.

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