Everyone wants to be happy. It’s part of our very nature. It is as though we are hard-wired to desire happiness, wanting it more than anything else. Since this is so, it is hardly surprising that all sorts of people are trying to sell us happiness, or at least the promise of happiness. If we buy this product or choose this lifestyle, we will be happy. Or so we are told. So we are promised.
The problem is that this desire for happiness has been poisoned by the idea that we can find happiness by “doing our own thing.”
We are told that doing what we want, or what we think we want, will make us happy. This is a lie. It is the first and worst of lies.
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