If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
Jason Snyderx.comIf you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
What you are looking for – satisfaction, immersion, absorption, completeness, meaning, whatever – does not come from the task or the situation; it always comes from your approach to the task or situation. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it. You need to learn to be fully present, to disconnect your happiness from the task
Arjuna Ishaya • 200% – An Instruction Manual for Living Fully
By taking responsibility for the consequences of their own perceptions, observers can transcend the role of victim to an understanding that “nothing out there has power over you.” It is not life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, which determine whether the events have a positive or negative effect on one... See more
David R. Hawkins • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
Happiness is a combination of enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose. To get happier is to get more of these elements, in a balanced way—not all of one and none of another. But if you were reading closely, you noticed one funny thing about all three: they all have some unhappiness within them. Enjoyment takes work and forgoing pleasures; satisfaction
... See moreOprah Winfrey • Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Seeing clearly that you always have a choice is taking responsibility for these situations. No one threw you into this – your past choices brought you here and, if you wish, you can get yourself out.