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emiclover
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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: The most important thing in life |
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| What do you think is the most important thing in life? |
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RedRose
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| too many inportant things in my life. I don't know where to start |
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garfield_jesse
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A very vague question 
I have many important things in my life 
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ad-miral
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my life is the most important thing, because if I don't live I won't earn money
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| ad-miral wrote: |
| my life is the most important thing, because if I don't live I won't earn money |
If your life is important because if you don't live, you don't earn money - then money is actually most important to you.
For me, contentment is most important.
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RedRose
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| beancurdturtle wrote: |
| For me, contentment is most important. |
You definitely got the soul of Tao.  |
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ad-miral
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| If your life is important because if you don't live, you don't earn money - then money is actually most important to you. |
exacty, but other things are important, too, like pretty wife or big car, but however money is the prerequisite
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| ad-miral wrote: |
exacty, but other things are important, too, like pretty wife or big car, but however money is the prerequisite |
So - when you have money, a pretty wife, and a big car, do you believe that you will be happy and content?
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RedRose
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| beancurdturtle wrote: |
| ad-miral wrote: |
exacty, but other things are important, too, like pretty wife or big car, but however money is the prerequisite |
So - when you have money, a pretty wife, and a big car, do you believe that you will be happy and content? |
I don't think so. it's hard for people to be content. you finish one wish, and then another wish will come to your mind, you would finish it with all your energy and intelligence. and then the next wish comes again....endless wishes. maybe those wishes inspire us to make great efforts on our lives. |
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beancurdturtle
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| RedRose wrote: |
I don't think so. it's hard for people to be content. you finish one wish, and then another wish will come to your mind, you would finish it with all your energy and intelligence. and then the next wish comes again....endless wishes. maybe those wishes inspire us to make great efforts on our lives. |
Always a new and greater wish, endlessly working to fulfill the wishes, and never simple happiness and contentment?
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ClarissaMach
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:27 am Post subject: |
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My daughter.
If she's fine, I'm fine.
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ad-miral
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| So - when you have money, a pretty wife, and a big car, do you believe that you will be happy and content? |
Yes I will (and if the wife is very caring and if she cooks good I will be even more content)
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beancurdturtle
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| Yes I will (and if the wife is very caring and if she cooks good I will be even more content) |
I have many years experience with very wealthy people from all over the world.
I have found that the people who chase money, big cars and houses, and pretty wives or husbands, soon get bored after they have the things they thought were important. Then they chase other women or men, bigger business deals, alcohol, drugs or worse.
With few exceptions, wealthy people who have everything they want, have been the most dissatisfied and unhappy people I have known. Always living in fear that they will lose their stuff.
Having stuff does not make a person happy. Learning how to be content is what makes a person happy.
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RedRose
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| beancurdturtle wrote: |
| RedRose wrote: |
I don't think so. it's hard for people to be content. you finish one wish, and then another wish will come to your mind, you would finish it with all your energy and intelligence. and then the next wish comes again....endless wishes. maybe those wishes inspire us to make great efforts on our lives. |
Always a new and greater wish, endlessly working to fulfill the wishes, and never simple happiness and contentment? |
Hmmm, maybe we can feel content from the procedure of endlessly working to fulfill the wishes. up to our personalities. |
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RedRose
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| ClarissaMach wrote: |
My daughter.
If she's fine, I'm fine. |
ClarissaMach, I totally understand that. and I second that. I guess all moms have the same thing. |
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