Feel Deeply To Think Clearly.

Some People Have A View Of Self And Of The Universe That Obliges Them To Struggle For Happiness, To Yearn For Happiness-"some Time In The Future"-perhaps Next Year Or The Year After That. But Not Now. Not At This Moment. Not Here. Here And Now Is Too Terrifyingly Close, Too Terrifyingly Immediate. They Suffer From Happiness Anxiety.

It Is A Curious Paradox Of Human History That A Doctrine That Tells Human Beings To Regard Themselves As Sacrificial Animals Has Been Accepted As A Doctrine Representing Benevolence And Love For Mankind.

We Do Not Hear The Term Compassionate Applied To Business Executives Or Entrepreneurs, Certainly Not When They Are Engaged In Their Normal Work. Yet In Terms Of Results In The Measurable Form Of Jobs Created, Lives Enriched, Communities Built, Living Standards Raised, And Poverty Healed, A Handful Of Capitalists Has Done Infinitely More For Mankind Than All The Self-serving Politicians, Academics, Social Workers, And Religionists Who March Under The Banner Of Compassion.

If We Attach More Importance To What Other People Believe Than To What We Know To Be True - If We Value Belonging Over Being - We Will Not Attain Authenticity.

I Believe That Earning Your Living Doing Something You Enjoy Is One Of The Very Best Ways To Nourish Yourself. But Even If You Are Employed At Something That Is Not Your Ideal Work, It Is Important To Find Ways To Take As Much Pleasure In It As Possible. Living In The Present Moment Can Make Ordinary Activities More Interesting And Joyful; You May Be Surprised, If You Only Look, At What You Will Find. If You Try To Stay Connected With Why You Are Doing What You Are Doing, For Example, Then Even The Parts Of Your Life That Aren't Especially Interesting Can Become More Meaningful.