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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Free Attention in Relationships

When you're no longer taken in by thought to the usual degree, what remains is exactly the pro social emotions you would want in a wise and enlightened person. It's not like you become totally without affect, totally without connection to other people. The mind becomes a wellspring of compassion and freedom from inwardness. And so there are some happy asymmetries here which are there to be discovered.

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