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Nov 2016
9m 34s

A Good Life is a Practice, Not a Place.

Jonathan Fields / Acast
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So often, we look at life as a game to win, or a journey to get from where we are now to that magical, far-off destination where, finally, we get to live a good life. Except, it doesn’t work that way. There is no there there, there is only here now. When we look at […]The post A Good Life is a Practice, Not a Place. appeared first on Good LifeProject.

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