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From the point of view of the experiencing self, if you have a vacation, and the second week is just as good as the first, then the two-week vacation is twice as good as the one-week vacation.

That's not the way it works at all for the remembering self.

For the remembering self, a two-week vacation is barely better than the one-week vacation because there are no new memories added.

And in this way, time is actually the critical variable that distinguishes a remembering self from an experiencing self; time has very little impact on the story.

Now, the remembering self does more than remember and tell stories.

The experiencing self has no voice in this choice.

And basically you can look at this, you know, as a tyranny of the remembering self, and you can think of the remembering self sort of dragging the experiencing self through experiences that the experiencing self doesn't need.

I have that sense that when we go on vacations this is very frequently the case; that is, we go on vacations, to a very large extent, in the service of our remembering self.

That is one of the explanations that is given for the dominance of the remembering self.

There are really two concepts of happiness that we can apply, one per self.

So you can ask: How happy is the experiencing self?

And then you would ask: How happy are the moments in the experiencing self's life?

And, by the way, now we are capable of getting a pretty good idea of the happiness of the experiencing self over time.

If you ask for the happiness of the remembering self, it's a completely different thing.

The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately.

If I tell you that somebody ranked their life eight on a scale of ten, you have a lot of uncertainty about how happy they are with their experiencing self.

We know something about what controls satisfaction of the happiness self.

Well, it turns out that climate is not very important to the experiencing self and it's not even very important to the reflective self that decides how happy people are.

Well, their experiencing self is not going to get happier.

We found that with respect to the happiness of the experiencing self.

In terms of the other self, the remembering self, you get a different story.

How to enhance happiness goes very different ways depending on how you think, and whether you think of the remembering self or you think of the experiencing self.

And the moment you accepted the universe just as it was, your habitual-wanting self dropped away, and the happiness which is your innate nature surfaced, and you felt it.

But second, even if it did and you were plugged into it, it would not take more than six months for you to be the same sorry, miserable self there as you are now, because passion exists inside you.

And what they did was, they sent Walter Raleigh down to physically separate her mortal self from her spirit self.

And the mortal self was the girl that Walter Raleigh was sent, and gradually he separated her so she was free to be divine.

Remember, in the film, to me, both her and her lady in waiting were parts of the same body, one the mortal self and one the spirit self.

"And it's going to be completely self contained including all its power."

It would be foolish to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self."

It's being our authentic self in all interactions.

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