“Zenfully Quool Quotes”
Currently featuring “The Art of Living”
By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Many of us want to be successful. We want to be good in our field.
We want to be number one.
We tend to think we can be happy only if we’re number one.
But if you want to be number one,
you have to devote all your time and energy to your work.
You end up sacrificing quality time with family and friends, and
you end up sacrificing time with yourself.
Often you even sacrifice your health.
In striving to be number one,
you end up sacrificing your happiness.
What is the point of being number one if you’re not happy?
You have to make a choice.
Do you want to be number one, or
do you want to be happy?
You may become a victim of your success,
but you can never become a victim of your happiness.
When you pursue the path of happiness,
you are much more likely to be successful in your work.
If you are happier and have more inner peace,
your work tends to be better. But
you have to make happiness your priority.
Once you can accept yourself as you are,
you allow yourself to be happy.
You don’t need to become anything or anyone else,
just as a rose doesn’t need to become a lotus in order to be happy.
As a rose, it is already beautiful.
You are wonderful just as you are.
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Zenfully Quool Quotes Quommentary – by rog
Consider this:
When you tell yourself that you want to be #1…
Then,
You are also stating egotistically that
you want everyone else to be less than you.
This, in itself is a self-defeating mode of thinking.
This defeats anyone’s Spiritual Path…
Or
any path that leads to their Liberation of Pain & Suffering,
And…
It increases the pain & suffering of others.
If all you care about is yourself…
Then you will have no room in your perception for the
care, understanding, empathy, compassion and love for others.
Currently,
our once reasonable country has embraced such a
disgusting self-centered narcissistic approach to the human perspectives
as toxically influenced by the current conservative mis-representation.
We are allowing the mentally vulnerable and the least evolved of our society
to make policy demands that mock any and all perspectives
that are essential for sustaining the human condition.
We passed the threshold of turning back and
‘we the people’ are gleefully willingly ignorant and cheering on
the big “F-U”
as we gain speed everyday towards total oblivion.
All because of one big fat ego that wants to be…
#1.
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