It is a very interesting thing this “Comparing.” It is one of the greatest sources of suffering of our times. If you are not happy you are most likely comparing.
My mother was 64 years old. She struggled with breast cancer for 8 years and passed away in January. As people poured to our home, there [...]
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.... Friedrich Nietzsche
“Comparing” The source of “Not Happy”
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From the book, Sartre for Beginners by Donald Palmer
A group of friends on vacation go for a day hike in the Alps. Half way to the mountain top, which is their goal, they turn a bend in the path and find their way blocked by a huge boulder that has fallen in such a a [...]
The Inadequacy of Reason – Pascal
When I consider the brief span of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and behind it, the small space that I fill, or even see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces which I know not, and which know not of me, I am afraid, and wonder to see myself here rather than [...]
From the book “The Power of Personal Accountability” by Mark Samuel & Sophie Chiche
A quote by Volataire. Regarding being a victim in life.
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
What a profound way to put it.
The Uniqueness of Freedom – from ‘Freedom and Destiny by Rollo May’
Every other reality in human existence becomes what it is by its nature. The heart beats, the eyes see; it is their nature to do what they do. Or, if we take something inorganic like values, we know what the nature of truth is – e.g., to state things as close to the reality as [...]
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It is amazing how we collapse concepts with what is real. We talk about concepts like we can touch them or grab them in our hands or see them with our eyes. I think it is the source of our poor relationship with reality and most of our suffering.
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