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"Happiness," said Complacency, "is to be found in contentment. Too much is always a curse, most of all in wealth. "The ears of the wealthy man ring with sounds of sweet music. His palate is cloyed with rich meats and wine.
Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 29, §16 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Chuang Tzu, happiness is found in a simple and sufficient life: an excess of pleasures, possessions or power does not make one happier, it weighs one down. Today, choose one thing of which you already have enough (a purchase, a screen, one more helping) and be content with what you have, fully savouring what is enough.
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