Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 4

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

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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	From director Sean McNamara comes Soul on Fire based on a true story.
0:04.6	They said you had no chance, but here you are.
0:07.3	Starring Joel Courtney, John Corbett, Stephanie Shostack, Macy McLean with Devon Franklin and William H. Macy.
0:13.5	If you focus exactly on loving the life that you're living right now,
0:17.7	and not the life that you think you could have had or should have had. That's a whole deal right there.
0:22.0	Soul on Fire.
0:23.3	Rated PG.
0:24.1	Prental guidance suggested.
0:25.3	Now playing.
0:26.2	For tickets, go to SoulOnfiremovie.com.
0:31.1	Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
0:34.8	Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,
0:39.2	and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles.
0:41.4	Go to Dennis Prager.com.
0:50.4	Obstacle is particularly identifiable with modern men and women.
0:59.0	And I suspect especially contemporary Westerners, and certainly it's one of the things that California is noted for, rightly or wrongly. And that is the equation in many people's minds of happiness with fun.
1:20.7	I am here to tell you that the relationship between fun and happiness is tenuous at best
1:29.1	and perhaps even nonexistent
1:34.7	most people believe the following equation
1:41.5	fun and happiness are directly related.
1:45.0	However, B, they are not related.
1:52.0	Therefore, C, most people believe something that renders happiness unattainable.
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