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To me, happiness is not about positive thoughts. It’s not about negative thoughts. It’s about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving, because the mind really exists in motion toward the future or the past. The more present I am, the happier and more content I will be. If I latch onto a feeling, if I say, “Oh, I’m happy now,” and I want to stay happy, then I’m going to drop out of that happiness. Now, suddenly, the mind is moving. It’s trying to attach to something. It’s trying to create a permanent situation out of a temporary situation.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

Au moment où nous achetons une grosse voiture polluante ou un téléphone portable qui l’est tout autant, nous ne nous demandons pas si, dans vingt, trente ou quarante ans, cela se traduira par de moins bonnes conditions de vie pour les générations futures. La seule chose que nous retenons, c’est que cela fait du bien. Nous vivons une bouffée d’euphorie et notre cerveau se reconfigure pour nous faire sentir ce que c’est que d’être plus haut que les autres.

Le Bug Humain

Sébastien BOHLER

Compounding this is the celebration of romantic love fostered by our popular culture. Movies as well as television soap operas and dramas saturate us with images of romantic love as the be-all and end-all of relationships, while newspapers, magazines, and TV news avidly report on the never-ending search for romance and love among actors and celebrities. So it should come as no surprise that people recently surveyed in Western societies rate a satisfying love relationship as their number-one goal, ahead of financial success and satisfying career.

Hold Me Tight

Sue Johnson

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