Taking Charge of Your Life

The talk goes into examining the human addiction to emotional highs and the inevitable lows that follow, showing how imagined love and feeling-based living create dependence, fear, and depression. It points back to the unmoved intelligence that is not excited or depressed by anything.

'For every up, there's a down, and everyone's struggling to get ups all the time.'

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LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 1999
PLACE RECORDED: Gold Coast
DURATION: 54 hours

MAIN TOPICS

Feelings, Excitement and depression, Living without feelings, Feelings emotions and sensation

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