Video - Sam Harris - The Meaning of Life

Video - Sam Harris - The Meaning of Life

by Waine Evans

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The one thing people tend __ realize __ moments like this is that they wasted a lot __ time,

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When life was normal it's not just what they did with their ____ it's not just that they spent too much ____ working or compulsively checking email,

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This is the thing _____ cared about the wrong thing.

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They regret what they cared about their attention was bound up __ petty concerns, year after year when life was normal,

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and this is ____ paradox, of course because we all know this epiphany is coming maybe, don't you know this is coming

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don't you know that there's going __ come a day when you'll be sick __ someone close to you will die and you'll look back __ the kinds of things that captured your attention.

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Because even if you live __ be a hundred there's just not that many days __ life,

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okay it is always now, however much you feel you may need to plan for the future to anticipate it, to mitigate risks ___ reality of your life is now,

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our conscious awareness __ the present moment is __ some relevant sense already a memory.

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but as a matter of conscious experience the reality of your life is always now and I think this is ___ liberating truth about the nature of ___ human mind,

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___ fact I think there's probably nothing more important ___ understand about your mind than that if you want to be happy in this world

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but the ______ is a memory it's a thought arising in the __________, that the _________ is merely anticipated it is another thought arising now,

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what we truly have is this moment and we _______ most of our lives forgetting this truth repudiating it, fleeing it, overlooking it, and the the horror is that we succeed

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we managed to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfilment there, because we are continually hoping to become ________ in the future.

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and the future never arrives even when we think we're ___ ______ present moment, were in very subtle ways always looking over its shoulder anticipating what's coming next

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we are always solving a problem and it's possible ____ simply drop your problem if only ____ a moment, and enjoy whatever is true of your life ____ the present

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there are more connections __ a single cubic centimetre of brain tissue than stars __ our galaxy, and yet our inner experience offers absolutely no clue.

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we are subjectively unaware most of what our minds are doing, and yet when we think about what ________ is consciousness and its contents

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it's consciousness is everything, our experience of _____ world the experience of those we care about is a matter of consciousness and its contents

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so whatever the origins of consciousness, the most important question ______ us is how can we truly be fulfilled _____ life

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how can we create _________ that are truly worth __________, given that these lives come to and end.

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so the frame we put around the present moment is important and __________ determines our experience of it

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but __ seems possible __ fact to experience life more nakedly than this __ experience it without an obvious friend

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to pay attention to the present moment closely enough so that you're not doing ____________ to it

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________ only evidence of your face and head is a sensation arise in consciousness at this moment

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but whatever you can __________ notice in your body and your mind, in the world has only one place to appear in your conscious experience

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now I'm not saying this is all just a _________, but as a neurological matter it is very much like a __________

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it is a dream that is constrained by inputs from the ________ world, and the dreams we call dreams at night or dreams that are not constrained by the __________ world

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________ mind is all you have, it's all you've ever had, and its all ______ have to offer other people

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we are all trying to find a _______ back to the present moment and good enough reason to just be happier

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if you're constantly ruminating about what you just did, or _______ you should have done, or ________ you would have done

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if you only have _____ chance you will miss your life

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hey you'll fail to connect with it, you'll fail to connect _______ other people

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if __ being the mere hostage of the next thought that comes careening _______ consciousness isn't useful

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if there's an antidote to the _______ of death and the experience clause it's compatible with reason I think it's to be found here

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the purpose of life is pretty obvious, we are constantly the way we are, why do we create culture and form relationships beyond the matters of mere _______________

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___________ constantly trying to create and repair a world that our minds want to be.

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