The true meaning of contentment is being satisfied with what you have and with who you are – right now. Prosperity doesn’t have the power to give us contentment, nor poverty the power to take it away. They would emotionally detach from the things and people they loved, convincing themselves that nothing mattered.īut the truth is getting more and more can never bring contentment, and desiring less and less can’t either. The Stoics believed that contentment meant the opposite – the way to have peace and contentment is to have less and less.
Since there’s no end to our desire to acquire or do more, we’ll never experience contentment. The problem with this line of thinking is that the horizon is always moving.
Our basic value is that “more is better.” We think, “I’ll be happy when I get married.” Or “I’ll be content when I have a second child.” Or “… when my marriage is functioning on all four cylinders.” Or “… when we remodel the bathroom.” What does it mean? In America, we’ve been taught to believe that contentment is linked to our accomplishments or constantly getting more.
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