If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “How do I stop suffering?” but “Why am I suffering— for what purpose?”
A wonderful read that encourages us to have a realistic look at our lives.
How many of us feel ashamed to be average and want to achieve greatness and if all of us achieve greatness, wont greatness become the average ?
How many of us wonder or worry about our problems and try hard to have a positive out look of our life..
How many of us feel we are either great and we are entitled or we are a victim of our circumstances..
How many of us accept failures and that we are wrong most times... Sounds weird?
Most of us would have answered yes to the above questions...
We feel we don't deserve any failure or pain in life and get all the worries of the world, or we go and find out positivity in everything ignoring the real emotions behind or feel we ought to be one of the greatest without the efforts needed to be one.
Core idea of the book is that all of us are bound to have problems, let's choose the problems for which finding a solution makes our lives a bit better than before.
Truly an enlightening read... What's life after all but truly living until death...
The lines that made can make us ponder..
Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.
This book is not some guide to greatness— it couldn’t be, because greatness is merely an illusion in our minds, a made- up destination that we obligate ourselves to pursue, our own psychological Atlantis.
Pain is what teaches us what to pay attention to when we’re young or careless. It helps show us what’s good for us versus what’s bad for us. It helps us understand and adhere to our own limitations.
Decision- making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks.
Denying negative emotions leads to experiencing deeper and more prolonged negative emotions and to emotional dysfunction. Constant positivity is a form of avoidance, not a valid solution to life’s problems— problems which, by the way, if you’re choosing the right values and metrics, should be invigorating you and motivating you.
Some of the greatest moments of one’s life are not pleasant, not successful, not known, and not positive.
If you’re miserable in your current situation, chances are it’s because you feel like some part of it is outside your control— that there’s a problem you have no ability to solve, a problem that was somehow thrust upon you without your choosing. When we feel that we’re choosing our problems, we feel empowered. When we feel that our problems are being b
If you’re miserable in your current situation, chances are it’s because you feel like some part of it is outside your control— that there’s a problem you have no ability to solve, a problem that was somehow thrust upon you without your choosing. When we feel that we’re choosing our problems, we feel empowered. When we feel that our problems are being forced upon us against our will, we feel victimized and miserable
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