Journey of a Thousand Miles

If you refuse to give controllers the power they seek, they will almost always turn to punishing you in some way. You'll never break free and attain real contentment until you're true to yourself and find the courage to be who you really are. Sometimes you have to take enormous risks to discover who you really are and, more important, live out who you really are. To be the person you truly are, you have to be willing to face tremendous loss.   When you are authentic, you set yourself up for the deepest kind of enduring contentment. You discover the profound peace that accompanies a set of free and effective choices, the feeling of fulfillment and inner calm you have when you confidently know that you are fully capable of representing and standing by your deepest desires and your best judgment. The ground may be very rocky on the way to genuineness, but the ultimate reward for getting there is unbelievably satisfying. She was trying to do the impossible- find co...

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. This is the motive of every man, even of those who hang themselves. --Blaise Pascale God created our desire for happiness. He made us to long for happiness. He longs to use that desire to do 3 things: Lead us to Him Test our motives Bring Him glory God designed our desire for happiness to lead us to Him. Our hunger for happiness is designed to prompt us to look to God, to long for the day when we will be returned to His presence. The primary function of our desire to be happy is to glorify God. Our happiness in God is the only evidence that we're not using Him. We spend ourselves on temporal things and therefore we long for temporal things. The way to combat that is to spend ourselves on eternal things. What does it look like in yo...