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Arthur C. Brooks says most people follow a backwards formula: loving things, using people, worshiping themselves. This creates misalignment and unhappiness. The fix is simpler: use things, love people, worship the divine.
Arthur C. Brooks says most people follow a backwards formula: loving things, using people, worshiping themselves. This creates misalignment and unhappiness. The fix is simpler: use things, love people, worship the divine.
when you're not feeling it, when things are out of alignment, even if you're successful, it almost always means you're following a particular worldly formula. And here's what it is. You are loving things, you're using people, and you're worshiping yourself. That's the dark formula. Now, how does darkness work? It takes the light and changes it a little. And the reason that people fall for this is not because it's so outlandish. There's nothing outlandish about what I said. It sounds a little right. And the reason it sounds a little right is because it's just off. Here's the formula that if we can correct and live according to it, it will bring us the meaning that we seek and thus the happiness that we crave. Use things. It's a world of abundance. It's so beautiful. Use them. Enjoy them. Seriously. I mean, it's great. I mean, people who are trying to be so ascetic all the time and feeling guilty about eating that wonderful dinner or having a watch that you think is nice and reading the time off it, use things. With joy, but don't love them. Don't let them use you. No. And because love is only designed for people. Love is for people, and worship is only for the divine. Use things, love people, worship the divine, and all will be well.
