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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Our Universal Journey

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2006

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Transcript

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Welcome back to Effortless English. Today's article is titled Our Universal Journey.

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As always, if you would like the words, the text, the writing for this article,

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you can join

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effortless English.com and also you will get

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vocabulary explanations and the mini story lessons as well. So go to

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W. W. Effortless English.

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dot com. You can try the first month for a dollar ninety nine.

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Okay let's get started. Our universal journey.

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A cat with an incurable kind of cancer.

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A job that is always tenuous.

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Human relationships that are fragile, unpredictable, and sometimes tumultuous.

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My own body, seemingly healthy, but still subject to disease, fatigue, and aging.

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Life is unpredictable.

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However much we think we have a handle on it,

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the truth is we never really know what's to come.

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Everything can change in an instant.

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This is a tough truth to accept, for though we know intellectually that all things in life

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are impermanent, we often don't feel it instinctively.

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We persist in our attempts to control life.

1:29.0

We imagine that we can predict and manipulate future events.

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We imagine that we control, or at least have a strong influence on external events.

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