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Life's purpose is understanding suffering and liberation from it
  • Rejects cosmic drama/story frameworks of purpose
  • Rooted in Buddhist perspective on suffering
  • Wealth/power fail to address fundamental suffering
  • Requires direct investigation of reality, not dogma
Yuval Noah HarariPeople by WTF00:49:07

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I think the ultimate reality is the reality of suffering and liberation from suffering, which is not about these dramas that people construct in their minds. Yuval Noah Harari
The realisation that suffering is not inevitable, that you can do something about it... The truth is that, yes, you can get a lot of power by lying, but the price you pay is that, ultimately, you cannot be happy if you don't know the truth about yourself. Yuval Noah Harari

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The Purpose of Life

Harari rejects traditional notions of cosmic purpose, instead framing human existence as an opportunity to understand and alleviate suffering through direct investigation of reality.

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