I found this to be a rather enlightening post by Yaro Starak. I think many people, including myself up until know, live to much in the future and completely miss the now. A common way of thinking is “My life will be so much better when my income increases by X amount.” The problem with that sort of thinking is that when you get to the X amount salary increase, you buy more stuff, so you never really advance to that “surplus” that you felt you need.
I believe people need more experiences in life, more growth, more consciousness shifts, not more stuff. It’s this sort of excitement/growth/enlightenment along the journey that will keep people grounded in the now so they’re not living in the future.
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Significant change takes effort, and often so much effort that by the time we get what we wanted or arrive where we wanted to be, our value system has changed too, so you may not even want what you were working so hard to acquire. That I believe is a clever built-in motivation tool nature has given us so that we’re always striving for more. If we got everything we wanted instantly and easily then the value wouldn’t be there and we’d stop striving to make ourselves better.
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Consequently, the lessons we eventually take away from any dramatic change in our lives are these, which many people come to understand as universal principles if they live long enough…
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- We should live in the moment,
- enjoy the journey,
- understand that what we want isn’t what we really want and,
- that we will always want more until we decide we don’t.
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