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Four Noble Truths

Aug 20, 2023

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” A man named Socrates said that long, long ago. Do you believe it? That we diminish ourselves to the degree that we are apathetic about the truth, or that unconscious biases dictate how we see the world, or that we have a habit of confusing appearances with reality? …