Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

by Martha N. Beck

As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.

Your essential self will fight you by committing “stupid” blunders whenever you violate your own values.

Anytime you think you don’t know what you want, it’s because your social self has decided you shouldn’t want it.