The modern world falls captive to its excessive desires. While most well-off people are not slaves to difficult and back-breaking labor, we are prisoners of our own desires. We all make our own prisons that we then seek to make better by consuming and buying more so that our time in them is more comfortable.…
Our opinion about things is what upsets us, not the things themselves. Events are objective. It is how we perceive them that can make us miserable and angry. Poverty is not having too little, it is wanting more. Wanting more than what we have leads to a slippery slope where we will always want something…
Obstacles give us the opportunity to learn and grow, and highlight potential weaknesses in our character and being. By embracing the challenges in our life, we are able to grow and develop to our full potential.