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Just by changing the content of consciousness you can become happy ...or not. Like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and Viktor Frankl have said. Put yourself in a state of optimal experience called Flow. Implies total involvement in an activity. Self consciousness disappears. Time gets distorted." — Feb 17, 2020 04:39AM
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Just by changing the content of consciousness you can become happy ...or not. Like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and Viktor Frankl have said. Put yourself in a state of optimal experience called Flow. Implies total involvement in an activity. Self consciousness disappears. Time gets distorted." — Feb 17, 2020 04:39AM
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