...it pointed to an alternative approach, a __egative path_ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing insecurity, stopping trying to think positively, becoming familiar with failure, even learning to value death. In short, all these people seemed to agree that in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions__r, at the very least to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.
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When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.
To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better
Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210
_progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to
Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom
Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.
Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.
The cornerstone of our thoughts begins with the spirited flames of our far-reaching imagination.
I'm not looking for a happy ending. I'm looking for a new beginning.
Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words.
The dawn of light is the liberation of souls.
All times are determined by God.
The world of reality exists. The world of fantasy exists. The great boundary between the world of reality and the world of fantasy is the boundary of pleasure and fallacy. So many people enter into the world of realities through the the gate of betrayal and pain of the world of fantasies. If you live in the world of fantasies, ponder!If you live in the world of realities, learn and use your lessons.
Listen not to the words that have been spoken, but bend your ears to what has not been said.
Try to get the important things right at all the time, even at the cost of being right.