As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas
The greatest irony is that those who dedicate their lives to hunting the chimera are the least likely to find it. As the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl warned, you can’t pursue happiness head-on. It will find you, but only as an unintentional byproduct of some worthier goal. Instead of chasing a mirage, eyes forever fixed on the destination, all we can
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Happiness within doesn’t always feel happy.
We live in a world that is emotionally unintelligent and immature. One common misconception that stems from there is the expectation that you can always be happy. And sure, there are all these pills and promises, but that misses the point.
Emotions are often represented by water in esoteric traditions. A
... See moreIf I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue them constantly. When I finally get them, they quickly disappear, and because the mere memory of past pleasures will not satisfy me, I have to start all over again. Even if I continue this pursuit for decades, it
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