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highly personal skill
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glib
Today, I believe happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.
trapped in the web of desires.
Happiness is the state when nothing is missing.
past or ...
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to regret something or to pla...
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internal silence,
content,
h...
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every positive thought essentially holds within it a negative thought.
Tao Te Ching
duality and p...
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absence of desire for external things.
not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is. [4]
move beyond good and evil.
Nature
unbroken mathemat...
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cause and...
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perfect or imperfect because of what we desire. [4]
The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.
Reality is neutral. Reality has n...
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happiness is a choice.
complete and utter insignifi-cance of the self,
neutrality
children,
really immersed in the environment and the moment, without any thought of how it should be
neutral state is actually a perfe...
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We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.
ego-driven self.
Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace.
acceptance,
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present. [3]
“Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.”
moment to moment,
squandering
happiness is more about peace than it is about joy.
peace and purpose
internal p...
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externally inflicted...
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pervasive
“nexting” thing
effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace.
addicted to the desiring.
reverse entropy.
self-actualize.
You should do what you are meant to do.
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
