Comments on: Find Contentment in a Discontented World

By: Living an Intuited Life

Living an Intuited Life — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:31:45 +0000

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By: Jason Cooper

Jason Cooper — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:15 +0000

Thank you for passing by, Shanka, as well as your enlightening comment.

By: Shankha

Shankha — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:51:53 +0000

We learn from them, sometimes worship them, but do we really follow them?
The contentment we get from their words are so full of mental satisfaction, still, in daily lives we just forget about them and do our daily works with full of frustration, dissatisfaction and discontentment.

Thanks for the post, I didn’t know about him, but learned a lot from your post.

By: Jason Cooper

Jason Cooper — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:03:43 +0000

Thanks for visiting, Fatima, and for your personal experience of comparison.

I cannot blame people for being discontented in a world which encourages one to upgrade something or the other every year so to keep up. But what also happened is that we have become a wasteful society by throwing away things that can still be used so to buy something new.

We have to learn from the people who live in poorer nations and see the joy they still have with the few possessions they have.

By: Fatima Da

Fatima Da — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:06:21 +0000

Great post Jason…”Comparison is a mental virus”..True! and cld be done so easily without the person knowing..A few years back my neighbour went out of her way to buy the same bedroom and dinner set as mine then called me to see how nice they looked in her house . This is a post I will love to send to her but have lost contact. Thanks for sharing

By: Jason Cooper

Jason Cooper — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:07:51 +0000

Watch out for a review of ‘Tao Te Ching’ soon.

As for Michel De Montaigne; I love him, and his book ‘The Complete Essays’ is one of my favorites – filled with so much wit, humor, humility and wisdom.

Cheers NP!

By: nothingprofound

nothingprofound — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:46:39 +0000

Ah Lao-Tzu-my favorite. Contentment isn’t highly prized these days. Neither is happiness. People want drama, excitement, conflict, passion. They take more and more risks trying to have “adventures.” This statement by Montaigne would make absolutely no sense to them: “I am content to live in the world without busying myself with the world, to live a merely excusable life, a life that is a burden neither to myself nor to others.” A merely excusable life-imagine that! Well, it makes perfect sense to me.