"When I Relax I Feel Guilty" Part II

In one chapterof this book, it's titled "Four Commandments of Contentment". I'd like to share just a few quotes and thoughts for us to mediate on.

"Many people spend their entire life indefinately preparing to live" --Paul Tournier

After pointing out that Phil 4:11 shows us that PAul LEARNED t be content, the author offers us for "laws" of contentment.

1) Live here and now
2) Don't hurry
3)Don't take yourself so seriously
4) PRactice gratitude.

I'd love to hsare everythingthe chapter says, but that's why you need to get the book. In short, one strong idea he points out is that we constantly idealize the future and are taught early on to live in preparation for the future, yet eventually, the future become the presetn and this mindset we westerners are so good at logically leads us to never live joyfully, b/c we will always be disappointed with the present and always living for something that doesn't arrive.

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."