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How would you ever get there? By a ceaseless awareness, by the infinite patience and compassion you would have for a drug addict. By developing a taste for the good things in life to counter the craving for your drug. What good things? The love of work which you enjoy doing for the love of itself; the love of laughter and intimacy with people to whom you do not cling and on whom you do not depend emotionally but whose company you enjoy. It will also help if you take on activities that you can do with your whole being, activities that you so love to do that while you’re engaged in them success, recognition, and approval simply do not mean a thing to you. It will help, too, if you return to nature. Send the crowds away, go up to the mountains, and silently commune with trees and flowers and animals and birds, with sea and clouds and sky and stars.
Awareness
Anthony de Mello
“Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.”
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
It is only then, through the complex interaction of social, political and industrial developments such as changes in the organization of industrial work, the tightening of poor relief, the removal of children from the family economy (effected in part by compulsory schooling), that the livelihood of most individuals and families becomes almost exclusively dependent upon wages from employment.
Unemployment and Government
William Walters
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