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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs

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Meditation Is the Only Way

The ability to catch and observe consciousness that in itself is a source of happiness. Meditation is the only way, I mean, that word can mean many things to many people. But what I mean by meditation is simply the discovery that there is a way to engage the present moment directly regardless of what's happened. And thoughts themselves have no substance. It's fundamentally mysterious that any thought ever really commandeers your sense of who you are and makes you anxious or afraid or whatever it is.

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