2.11.2010


"What always strikes me is how intelligent we are as human beings, and yet how often we miss this very simple truth: we want happiness but the ways we go about trying to get it cause us to suffer. Whenever you ask yourself why you’re having a cigarette or why you’re saying a mean word, the answer is usually that in your guts you feel it will bring some satisfaction. Yet, if you ask yourself if what you are doing has ever given you satisfaction, your honest answer would have to be no. Nevertheless, we keep right on doing it. This kind of stupidity seems to run very deep in human beings. Pema Chodron in "Let’s Be Honest."*

*Interview published in Shambhala Sun, http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2864&Itemid=0

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