A Practical Guide to the Pursuit of Happiness
G. K. Chesterton, the famous Catholic journalist once wrote:
‘There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.’
This strikes me as incredibly profound.
How much misery enters our lives through the desire for things - or circumstances - that we don’t have. Even if we get that one thing, the desire for more is insatiable and there is soon some other unmet longing to take its place. The most that we can hope for, in such a situation, is for a brief respite from the cycle of desire-dissatisfaction and reward-desire.
That’s a terrible prison to live in.
I intend to post more about this in the future, when I write about Embracing the Moment.
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From sharing handy memory aids, to pointing to ways to overcome anxiety, we aim is to record our own journey into mental wholeness - including both successes and failures.
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Zendad
August 19th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Incredibly profound indeed, thank you for sharing.
graham
August 19th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
No problem.
Thanks for the comment!