So, you can bullshit yourself into all kinds of emotional states, you can somehow crank up some well-being for yourself, but the problem is, it doesn’t last. The weather could bring it down. The stock market could make it come crashing down. And even if it does not collapse, living in anticipation that it might is bad enough! The impending possibility that it will fall apart one day is torture—often worse than the actual disaster
Right now you are just trying to use a limited section of your brain, and you think that is intelligence.
Someone once told me my guardian angel must be very good and perpetually working overtime!
There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love. There are conditions and there is love.
Most people who believe they are virtuous are hard to live with.
Some are suffering their failure, but ironically, many are suffering the consequences of their success.
No tradition, however time-honored, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.
If you were alone on this planet, what would you want for yourself?