There is a pleasure of its own
The very fact of our not wanting pleasures
Taking the place of the pleasure themselves
These are very beautiful words :
I read something similar written by Ryan Holiday - quoting
“You are Rich, if and only if, the taste of money you refuse,
Is much more than the taste of money you accept”
There seems to be a beauty in refusal - of superfluities -
There seems to be a beauty in -” Saying No”
There seems to be beauty in feeling enough
There seems to be beauty in feeling contented
Say No to the superfluities
Ambition is Easy, Contentedness is Tough
Greed is Easy, Feeling enough is tough
Saying Yes is easy, Saying No is tough
Learn to live with restraint!
Tone your wants and tastes low enough,
and make much of negatives
and of mere daylight and the skies
-Walt Whitman
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