Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 1
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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On Today’s Show:
Dennis Prager tackles one of life’s most important—and misunderstood—pursuits: happiness. Drawing on philosophy, religion, and practical life experience, Dennis explores why so many people struggle to be happy, the common barriers that prevent it, and the choices we can make to live more fulfilling lives. Each lecture offers clear, actionable insights that will challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and provide tools for cultivating lasting happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:04.3 | Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, |
| 0:08.7 | and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. |
| 0:11.4 | Go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:18.9 | Teaching for about 20 years, ever since I taught at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, |
| 0:25.9 | just scholarly sorts of things, to all the courses that I've taught here in the 13 years that I've been in Los Angeles. |
| 0:34.5 | Nothing is as difficult as a course on happiness. |
| 0:41.5 | The reason is it can so easily descend into pap, cliche, pop psych, and feel-goodism, all of which I loathe. It was a very real |
| 0:52.6 | gamble, and not only gamble, it was actually contrary to my nature |
| 0:58.3 | to give the course last year and I'd like to explain this I'm almost asking your |
| 1:04.0 | apology for giving this course which is an odd thing to do but I'd like to explain how this |
| 1:09.1 | all happened |
| 1:11.1 | it's uh... it shows that |
| 1:13.3 | you know in the sense for those who were very religiously inclined were in |
| 1:17.0 | god's hands and whatever we do |
| 1:19.1 | he has his plan and for the rest of you |
| 1:21.8 | fate is just uh... determines things or whatever |
| 1:25.6 | at any rate a few years ago about three three years ago, I was asked by the |
| 1:30.0 | Qabad rabbi at UCLA. |
| 1:34.5 | While the Jews are small people, we have quite a few, I wouldn't say denominations, but |
| 1:42.4 | teams. |
| 1:44.2 | That's probably the most accurate word, teams, within Judaism. |
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