The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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