If Someone Offered You A Pill That

Reality' Is A Movie Generated By Our Brains. Because We Don't Realize This, We Are Far Too Confident That The Stuff Appearing In The Movie Is Actually 'out There' In The World When, In Fact, It's Not.

Human Beings Are Works In Progress That Mistakenly Think They're Finished.

Your Mistake Was Not In Imagining Things You Could Not Know—that Is, After All, What Imagination Is For. Rather, Your Mistake Was In Unthinkingly Treating What You Imagined As Though It Were An Accurate Representation Of The Facts.

Happiness Refers To Feelings, Virtue Refers To Actions, And Those Actions Can Cause Those Feelings. But Not Necessarily And Not Exclusively.

We All Have Direct Experience With Things That Do Or Don't Make Us Happy, We All Have Friends, Therapists, Cabdrivers, And Talk-show Hosts Who Tell Us About Things That Will Or Won't Make Us Happy, And Yet, Despite All This Practice And All This Coaching, Our Search For Happiness Often Culminates In A Stinky Mess. We Expect The Next Car, The Next House, Or The Next Promotion To Make Us Happy Even Though The Last Ones Didn't And Even Though Others Keep Telling Us That The Next Ones Won't.