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)

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.

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