“Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the "self"—the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head—is an illusion.”

—  Sam Harris

Sam Harris, Interview with The Minimalists (19 August 2014) http://www.theminimalists.com/sam/
2010s

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