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#240 — The Boundaries of Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Honesty Is Not the Revealing of the Truth, but in Revealing the Truth

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. Every human being dwells intimately close to a door of revelation they are afraid to pass through. Honesty lies in understand our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. To become honest is, in effect, to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

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