You want to know how to be happy, good and loved? Look at the planet with cats' eyes! John grey convinces that cats can teach us more than philosophers from Spinoza to Bierdiaev. Now you can read this clever and intriguing book.
The philosophers from Spinoza to Bierdiaev asked themselves eternal questions about how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a changing world, where we constantly feel loss. John grey convinces that all of this will be taught best by cats – animals that have mastered our imagination most.
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How good to live. 10 Cat Advices
Cats have no reason to teach people how to live, and if they did, they would surely not preach any commandments. However, you can imagine that the cat gives us a fewer tips on how to live little poorly. He wouldn't anticipate us to follow them, of course. He would give them to us in the form of fun, in the form of amusement for himself and the human beings who will receive them.
1
Never effort to convince a man that he should act wisely
Convincing people to be rational is as effective as convincing cats to turn to veganism. By reason people effort to keep in power what they want to believe, and much little effort to see if what they believe is true.
This is not the happiest situation, but neither you nor anyone else can aid it. If human deficiency of reason frustrates you or is dangerous to you, go your way.
2
It's not wise to complain that you don't have adequate time.
If you think you don't have adequate time, that means you can't spend it properly. Take care of what serves your intent and pleases you. If you live like this, you'll have plenty of time.
3
Do not search meaning in suffering
If you feel bad, you can find peace in your misery, but there is simply a hazard that you will make life of it. Do not become attached to your own suffering and avoid those who do so.
4
Better to be indifferent to others than to feel compelled to love
Few that perfect has done as much harm as a belief in universal love. It is better to cultivate indifference, which sometimes turns into kindness.
5
Forget the pursuit of happiness, and you may find it
You won't find happiness chasing him due to the fact that you don't know what would truly make you happy.
Do what you're most curious in, and you'll be happy without even knowing it.
6
Life isn't a story.
If you think your life is going to be history, you'll effort to compose it to the end. But you do not know how your life will end or what will happen before it ends. Better throw out the script. Real life is worth more than any communicative you've always written.
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7
Don't be afraid of the dark, for the night hides many treasures
You were taught to think first and then act, which is frequently right. Acting under the influence of a momentary impulse can be simply following a thoughtlessly accepted mediocre philosophy. Sometimes, however, it is better to follow a hunch flickering in the dark – you never know where it will lead you.
8
Sleep for the joy of sleep
Sleeping just to work more efficiently after waking up is simply a pathetic way of life. Sleep for pleasure, not for calculating.
9
Beware of anyone who promises you happiness
Those who offer you happiness do so to ease their own anguish. Your suffering is essential to them, due to the fact that without it, their lives would be little meaningful. Don't trust people who say they live for others.
10
If you can't live a small more after cat, come back without regret to the planet of human entertainment.
Life after cat means you don't want anything more from life than you have. This means that there is no possible of comfort, which may be besides difficult. In that case, effort to engage in an ancient religion, preferably 1 with many rituals. And if you don't find the right one, lose yourself in a average life. The excitement and disappointment of romanticist love, the pursuit of money and ambition, political gameplay and the sound of news will shortly cloud the sense of emptiness.
