Tag: pleasure

• Temporary Pleasure

  Do not allow temptation to distact you from your path.

  As you pursue your goals, many opportunities will arise to quit or to take an easier, softer way.

  Trust the plan.

  Stay the course.

  You will never get anywhere worth going if you are not dedicated to the path you are on.

  It will not be easy and it will not even always be enjoyable, but the results will be worth the effort, pain, and sacrifice in the end.

  Do not sacrifice a worthwhile pursuit for temporary pleasure.

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  TEMPORARY PLEASURE
  By Robert Van Valkenburgh
  Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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  July 13, 2024

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• Opportunities To Live

  The more you open up, the more you risk getting hurt.

  You cannot choose to only experience that which is pleasant.

  To feel is to feel everything, both pleasant and painful.

  To be open is to be open to everything that life has to offer.

  Perhaps more importantly, to be open is to be open to everything your inner life has to offer.

  How can you know who you are if you deny the parts of yourself that are unpleasant, frightening, or painful?

  How can you truly live if you avoid life itself?

  Embrace the joy and the pain, the beauty and the tragedy, the hope and the fear.

  The more you open up, the more opportunities you create to live.

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  November 18, 2023

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• A Happy Surprise

  Happiness is a strange thing.

  It is not sustainable, nor is it meant to be.

  What makes you happy momentarily will not keep you happy forever.

  When you expect happiness to be permanent, you are setting yourself up for disappointment when it inevitably fades.

  Because of its transient nature, the pursuit of happiness is also the inadvertent pursuit of unhappiness because when you pursue happiness, you are pursuing something that you cannot keep.

  It is better, therefore, to let happiness come to you.

  Happiness is better experienced as a pleasant surprise than as an expectation.

  When it comes, it comes and when it goes, it goes.

  By removing expectations, you get to experience happiness in the moment without being let down when it leaves you.

  Enjoy whatever moments of happiness you are fortunate enough to experience.

  Be present for them without clinging to them or chasing them and you may find that they are more plentiful and more meaningful than when you anticipate or expect them.

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  October 7, 2023

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