A Key to Happiness - Low tech, yet tricky….
March 26th, 2007 : David CarnesRan across this quote this AM….
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he’s working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.
- James Michener
To me it seems pretty close to one of the keys to happiness - if you can be totally engaged in the present, doing the best you can do at the time (pursuing excellence), you lose the baggage of the past and are freed from fear / fantasies of the future.
During those moments when we are engaged and doing our best - aren’t we happy?
March 26th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
An excellent quote indeed. Reminds me of a similar ‘Low tech, yet tricky’ key:
While there are obvious exceptions to this, I think it makes a good point.
March 27th, 2007 at 1:30 am
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This is the need we may call self-actualization … It refers to man’s desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything that one is capable of becoming …” - Abraham Maslow.