What do you want from life?

Everybody wants to be happy; the lucky few know that happiness is overated. And paradoxically, they are the happiest, for they know the meaning of their lives. The rest yearn for happiness and suffer in quiet desperation.

Deep down, we all want to be like Saints and Heros, who are utterly non-selfconscious about themselves;  They are aware only of their goals, and how they go about attaining them. But we draw back, frightened at the sacrifices they make.

The first Nobel Truth of Buddhism is that life is suffering. Therefore, if one wants to find meaning in life, then one must find meaning in suffering. The person who finds that has conquered the world.