Donald Hoffman

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2,139 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Donald Hoffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And I'm going to let myself...

Completely fall apart when someone else steals my shovel in the sandbox.

I'm just going to let myself fall apart and feel like my world is collapsed.

And then when I'm a teenager, I'll let myself fall apart when a date goes wrong or I flunk a class or something like that.

And so we let ourselves completely identify with it.

jobs, careers, everything, failures, successes.

We go in with both feet.

And at the end of life, you look back and you go, wow, that was quite a ride.

And I'm glad I did it.

And that's not me.

I transcend that.

And now it's time to take off the headsets.

I would say that there are two almost contradictory aspects that I've found important in their own ways.

One is...

As I've mentioned, going into silence and letting go of all thoughts and anything I might be clinging to is, I think, really critical.

It's stepping back from everything that I identify with and just watching it.

and realizing that, oh, whatever I am is the watcher, not the story, not the thing that I'm seeing, not the thing that I thought was so important.

I'm the watcher that can just watch all that.

And that's not, of course, new with me.

Many spiritual traditions have been saying that for thousands of years.

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