“A life that looks good is not the same thing as a life that feels good”
+ the best take I’ve seen yet on the ayahuasca discourse https://t.co/DkUyoKhZ0F
“A life that looks good is not the same thing as a life that feels good” + the best take I’ve seen yet on the ayahuasca discourse https://t.co/DkUyoKhZ0F
If you are doing “everything you are supposed to be doing” and yet you feel empty and depressed at the end of the day, the issue is probably that you’re not really doing what you want to be doing; you’ve just adopted someone else’s script
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
The happiness that someone like Mark misses is unreal and unhealthy. He needs to learn to want a different type of relative happiness – that is, a state of reasonable contentment, with intermittent joy and pain, which, unlike the myth of a permanent bliss, can potentially be achieved. Switching from one goal to the other will involve a process of a... See more
Rafa Euba • As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas
Here’s what most people think: If I get my goal, I’ll be happy. If I don’t get my goal, I’ll be sad. It’s simply not true: Pain and pleasure are something we need to understand better. Is there pleasure in NOT getting my goal? Yes. Is there pain in GETTING my goal? Yes. This needs to be discussed.
Dan John • Attempts
Finally I saw through the clouds. I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life I had been busy seeking happiness, not finding it. I laid my head back on the pillow as the jet started its descent. My eyes misted with tears. I felt I had come to a dead end; I didn’t know where to turn.
Dan Millman • WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR: A Book That Changes Lives
Certain highs, produced by taking synthetic or natural drugs, or alcohol, or feeding an addiction to food, sex, work, or social media (to name but a few), make us feel as though we’ve transcended our struggles. But that feeling is temporary. At best, it leaves us needing more of that high