Happiness Revisited @ Flow

Flow --> The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sake of doing it.

The Universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly, it is simply indifferent - J.H. Holmes

There is no problem in our desire to escalate goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way.The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want that they cease to derive pleasure from the present.

How many people do you know who enjoy what they are doing, who are reasonably satisfied with their lot, who do not regret the past and look to the future with genuine confidence ?

The roots of the discontent are internal, and each person must untangle them personally, with his or her own power

Ontological Anxiety or Existential Dread
a fear of being, a feeling that there is no meaning to life and that existence is not worth going on with