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#3 — WAKING UP — Chapter One

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There More to Life Than That?

Spiritual life begins with a suspicion that the answer to such questions could well be yes. A true spiritual practitioner is some one who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time. i'm not claiming to have experienced all such states, but i meet many people who appear to have experienced none of them. And these people often profess to have no interest in spiritual life. Nevertheless, fact that a condition of selfless well being is there to be glimpsed in each moment.

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