As you read, you’ll begin to appreciate what I think of as the inner-outer paradox—the fact that, as we saw earlier in the book, the surest way to improve your inner world is to focus on the outer world, because happiness inside comes from looking outside. I’m not saying that happiness depends on external circumstances; we’ve already seen that waiting for someone or something else to make you happy is a losing game. My point is that our lives are spent in connection—to other people, to our work, to nature and the divine—and the more we do to improve those connections, the better off we are.
