All success is driven by unhappiness

[Davino]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Success is a kind of addictive hallucination that masks the existential emptiness underneath.

Omg, that's such a good quote

[Someone here]

To me one usually needs to become successful and then transcend it . Burn the karma first . Don’t pretend you are in a place in your journey where you are actually not . Succeed then transcend your addiction to it.

[LordFall]

12 hours ago, enchanted said:

You are proving the point. This whole paragraph is examples of unhappiness and things that would drive you to success. 

De Botton explains that even every thought is a solution to a problem and starts as soon as the mothers nipple is denied at infancy and the baby cries. It's all very deep (almost as deep as Leos videos). I recommend watching the first few minutes of the interview. It's profound. 

 

PS I'm not saying success is bad but it has unhappiness as it's driver. 

Nope. You can be perfectly happy and content and then still want to share more of your power and love with the rest of the world and step out of your bubble and keep achieving and doing more to create abundance for others and not be driven by your mental unhappiness. 

Once more, you are creating a false dichotomy.

I wonder why you are drawn to this style of thinking? Do you feel like the pressure of the world is overwhelming and it's easier to focus on inward happiness and ignore anything communal or the collective issues we face as a species globally today? 

Edited 1 hour ago by LordFall

[Miguel1]

7 minutes ago, LordFall said:

Nope. You can be perfectly happy and content and then still want to share more of your power and love with the rest of the world and step out of your bubble and keep achieving and doing more to create abundance for others and not just mental unhappiness for yourself. 

LordFall is correct.

I feel like I am quite happy in life. Very happy actually, yet I am inspired as hell to create amazing stuff for humankind, and to express myself profoundly. Leave a poweful positive impact on humanity.

But I am very ambitious so it is hard for me to just sit still and be happy. If I was forced to do nothing, I would probably become unhappy.

I guess I would practice hardcore meditation then, and challenge myself. But that is also Doing.

[Lyubov]

No. It's either driven by fear or love. The way. the path, the flow, the current or a fight against it trying to go up river. Flow or resistance. The guy in the video has a one dimensional take on nature because he is able to see through the illusion that motivate people but he hasn't gone all the way. He has done some self reflection but he has drawn a conclusion that is an assumption based off of what he is aware of, but there is more to discover. All of reality follows the same way back to a seamless uncaused perfection and acceptance. This peace is not idle. It is a boundless cause for celebration and creation. You can become directly aware of this and align all your actions with it, or you can go against it and not align your actions with it. The former is a sense of wholeness and joy, people create what they love from here. The later is a sense of lack, people strive to fill this lack.

Edited 2 hours ago by Lyubov

[enchanted]

51 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

No. It's either driven by fear or love. The way. the path, the flow, the current or a fight against it trying to go up river. Flow or resistance. The guy in the video has a one dimensional take on nature because he is able to see through the illusion that motivate people but he hasn't gone all the way. He has done some self reflection but he has drawn a conclusion that is an assumption based off of what he is aware of, but there is more to discover. All of reality follows the same way back to a seamless uncaused perfection and acceptance. This peace is not idle. It is a boundless cause for celebration and creation. You can become directly aware of this and align all your actions with it, or you can go against it and not align your actions with it. The former is a sense of wholeness and joy, people create what they love from here. The later is a sense of lack, people strive to fill this lack.

If you truly went all the way then you would would love unhappiness because you would realize it's the driver of all your actions. Instead you try and defend a stance (I'm guessing because the original claim made you unhappy) and make up a story that all your actions are an expression of love. You deny unhappiness exists in your life thus creating a shadow of it and self deception too. 

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, LordFall said:

Nope. You can be perfectly happy and content and then still want to share more of your power and love with the rest of the world and step out of your bubble and keep achieving and doing more to create abundance for others and not be driven by your mental unhappiness. 

Why create an abundance for others? Presumably because it would make you happy. You can't argue this. It's a well known fact that all our actions are geared toward happiness, but that implies we aren't currently happy. Accepting this fact and loving unhappiness is true transcendence. Being in denial is not developed thinking. 

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Once more, you are creating a false dichotomy.

Once more? You keeping count? 

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I wonder why you are drawn to this style of thinking? Do you feel like the pressure of the world is overwhelming and it's easier to focus on inward happiness and ignore anything communal or the collective issues we face as a species globally today? 

Nope. I share interesting things and ideas I find on the Internet because I'm bored and lonely like you. I'm not drawn to any particular style of thinking I'm able to hold many ideas simultaneously and this is just one of them. What's more telling is your need to argue against my ideas or try and project on to me that I'm feeling the pressure of the world. 

Edited 1 hour ago by enchanted

[Lyubov]

1 hour ago, enchanted said:

If you truly went all the way then you would would love unhappiness because you would realize it's the driver of all your actions. Instead you try and defend a stance (I'm guessing because the original claim made you unhappy) and make up a story that all your actions are an expression of love. You deny unhappiness exists in your life thus creating a shadow of it and self deception too. 

You are the creator of your emotions and life. Not the victim of them. Why would you create unhappiness? If unhappiness drives you (which you choose to create whether you realize it or not) why not create something else? Don’t confuse acceptance with responsibility. I don’t deny anything. You misunderstand my post. 

Edited 1 minute ago by Lyubov