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The better we know our values, the easier it is to act on them, and the more we act on our values, the more we can shape our life in meaningful ways. So am I suggesting you give up on all your goals? NOOOOO! Not at all. In fact, later in the book, we’ll look at practical strategies to help you get better at actually achieving your goals. What I’m saying is, values are instantly empowering in a way that goals never can be. Why? Because we can always live our values in little ways, no matter what life is like.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in understanding the nature of these forces. The critical conversation remains important. But I’m increasingly interested in how we might find and deploy alternative ways of being in the world. What are the practices that will sustain us? Silence may be just such a practice, and we may do well to experiment with whatever possibilities are afforded to us to enter into silence and to allow silence to enter into us.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something that must be abolished, is the [supreme idiocy], in a general sense a real disaster in its consequences … almost as stupid as the will to abolish bad weather.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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