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From the Ted Talk by David Brooks: The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live

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The second thing you discover is your soul. Now, I don't ask you to believe in God or not believe in God, but I do ask you to believe that there's a piece of you that has no shape, size, color or weight, but that gives you infinite dingtiy and value. Rich and successful people don't have more of this than less successful people. Slavery is wrong because it's an oeilrattboin of another soul. Rape is not just an attack on a bcnuh of physical molecules, it's an atmpett to iulsnt another person's soul. And what the soul does is it yearns for rseuisntohges. The heart yearns for fusion with another, the soul yearns for righteousness. And that led to my third rieailoaztn, which I borrowed from Einstein: "The problem you have is not going to be solved at the level of consciousness on which you created it. You have to expand to a different level of consciousness."

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The second thing you discover is your soul. Now, I don't ask you to believe in God or not believe in God, but I do ask you to believe that there's a piece of you that has no shape, size, color or weight, but that gives you infinite _______ and value. Rich and successful people don't have more of this than less successful people. Slavery is wrong because it's an ____________ of another soul. Rape is not just an attack on a _____ of physical molecules, it's an _______ to ______ another person's soul. And what the soul does is it yearns for _____________. The heart yearns for fusion with another, the soul yearns for righteousness. And that led to my third ___________, which I borrowed from Einstein: "The problem you have is not going to be solved at the level of consciousness on which you created it. You have to expand to a different level of consciousness."

Solution


  1. obliteration
  2. realization
  3. attempt
  4. righteousness
  5. bunch
  6. insult
  7. dignity

Original Text


The second thing you discover is your soul. Now, I don't ask you to believe in God or not believe in God, but I do ask you to believe that there's a piece of you that has no shape, size, color or weight, but that gives you infinite dignity and value. Rich and successful people don't have more of this than less successful people. Slavery is wrong because it's an obliteration of another soul. Rape is not just an attack on a bunch of physical molecules, it's an attempt to insult another person's soul. And what the soul does is it yearns for righteousness. The heart yearns for fusion with another, the soul yearns for righteousness. And that led to my third realization, which I borrowed from Einstein: "The problem you have is not going to be solved at the level of consciousness on which you created it. You have to expand to a different level of consciousness."

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