Whenever You Avoid Alarming Situations, You Almost

Happiness Is Experienced Largely In Striving Towards A Goal, Not In Having Attained Things, Because Our Nature Is Always To Want To Go On To The Next Endeavor.

The Great Majority Of The Things We Now Make Ourselves Panicked About Are Self-created 'dangers' That Exist Almost Entirely In Our Own Imaginations.

We'd Better Work Hard On Getting Rid Of That Must - Other People Must Do What I Want Them To Do!" It's What Makes People Hostile, Nasty, Mean And Combative, And It Leads To Feuds, Wars And Genocide. We'd Better Do Something About That.

I Don't Recommend That People Speak Their Minds To Their Bosses Or To Somebody Who's Directly Over Them. You Need To Know When To Speak Your Mind And What The Penalty Will Be For Doing So. Sometimes It's Worth It, And Often It's Not!

This, Perhaps, Goes To Show That Conditional Self-esteem, As I Have Said For Many Years, Is An Insidious, Real Sickness, So Much So That Even Buddhists Carelessly Sneak It In And Sometimes Encourage Their Clients To Achieve It.