Moment 96 - Without This You WON'T Find Fulfilment In Life: Stephen Fry

Uh We d we tend to set ourselves of if if only I could live in that kind of a village in you know in the south of England, like a quite near a station and nice little house, but not too expensive and yeah, and then you get it. And so yeah, you live in the hooray. Um maybe that car, that that new one there, that Tesla or whatever. I'll get a Then I'll be happy. You don't literally say then I'll be happy, but there's a kind of sense of that's all I really want. And each of these goals is met, and it isn't it. There's the line of T. That's not it. That's not it at all.

And and we go through life thinking, that's not it. That's not it at all. There is something in all of us, a whole, a need to For connection and love. And truth. and and a sense of something beautiful beyond and we can if you're religious you call it heaven and if you're a a humanist you you you know you call it a full and achieved life um of of friendship and you know elements of sacrifice and so on. But you know

You know that there's a hope for it, but but If you If you mislabel it and think that it's connected with money or cars or mortgages or Jobs or status. You're never happy because of your status, because of

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