Money…
Possessions…
Achievements…
When is enough, enough?
In my experience, it’s never enough until we find inner peace.
There is a stage in life when ‘more’ does help move us towards inner peace. But past a point, more takes us away from it.
That’s the value of zooming out and taking stock, because that inflection point is very easy to blow past.
And there’s nothing worse than a rich and miserable person…
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.