A spell
Simply asking is a spell that conjures what is desired surprisingly often.
Labels: thought
That man would be completely happy whose desires naturally aroused the proper activities, and whose activities successfully attained their end in gratification; between whose desires and experience there was perfect correspondence. On the other hand, a man would be entirely comfortable in mind and body if his desires could be eradicated; he might approach happiness by eliminating his desires, for, as Carlyle observes, you get the same result either by increasing the dividend or by decreasing the divisor. Complete happiness is, however, denied in both these directions; not even the most fortunate man finds all his desires gratified; and, on the other hand, by no sort of stoicism can man reduce his demands on life to the point of vanishing.
—F. C. Prescott
—F. C. Prescott
Thursday, January 03, 2013
