2. “Bringing happiness and contentment into the marriage is the correct way to get it out of the marriage.” Sam’s wisdom is that your center of gravity in a relationship should be over your own two feet and not leaning into the other persons space.
3. Sam makes an admission which I found surprising, because it revealed that there is a lot less daylight between him and me on the question of consciousness. Previously, I had assumed he was deterministic. But in fact he admits that the nature of consciousness is so poorly understood that it would be an act of intellectual arrogance (and a leap of non-faith) to presume to know what happens when we die.
