Monthly Archives: February 2010

What gives us more pleasure: the pursuit of of our desires or the attainment of them?

From Tony Robbins’s ‘The Monk who sold his Fer­rari’: “How would you drop an egg thruogh a height of four feet, with a floor of con­crete below, and still not have it cracked?” Triv­ially, we all begin by think­ing how to cir­cum­vent the hard­ness of the con­crete, or the weak­ness of the egg. We do

Do we value only what we struggle for?

When was the last time you were delighted to get some­thing you were ‘sup­posed’ to? For instance, how many of us would actu­ally delight in receiv­ing break­fast? Not me! What we do not strug­gle for, we take as granted — the most fun­da­men­tal exam­ple being our own exis­tence. Rarely would one find some­body so con­sci­en­tious, he