Are You Guided By Your Feelings?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Timeless Wisdom, Dennis Prager dives into the importance of not letting feelings control our behavior and happiness. He shares a personal story about his brother's experience at Columbia University, where he realized that external validation doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Dennis also discusses the self-esteem movement and how it's led to increased unhappiness in America. He emphasizes the need to be guided by our minds, not just our feelings, and shares examples from his own life and a caller's story about dealing with his daughter's mood swings.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of timeless wisdom. |
| 0:03.0 | If you allow yourself, and this is super duper serious, if you allow yourself to be better, |
| 0:09.7 | to the extent that you allow your feelings to do two things. |
| 0:17.4 | One, control your behavior. |
| 0:19.7 | Two, be the measure of your happiness. You can never, |
| 0:24.7 | ever be happy, and you will inflict misery on others. Other than that, it is a good idea to be |
| 0:31.2 | guided by your feelings. That's coming up on timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:35.9 | We live in a time where the moment you question the narrative you're told to stop thinking |
| 0:39.5 | and start complying. |
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| 1:01.5 | Prager, join the Angel Guild and watch these films today. Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis |
| 1:08.4 | Prager. Here thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, |
| 1:13.7 | and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 1:19.8 | Hey, that's up, da-da-d-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. |
| 1:22.6 | Yes. |
| 1:23.5 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager show, where we believe that the happy make the world better and the unhappy generally make it worse. |
| 1:30.8 | Ergo, ergo, ergo, ergo, ergo, the happiness. |
| 1:36.3 | The happiness, the happiness. |
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