Inner abundance is the source of lasting happiness

Epicurus, a master of Western cynicism, divided human needs into three categories: the first is innate and must be met, and unsustainable life, such as eating, sleeping, and warming. The second category is innate but not necessary, and none is okay. For example, sexual desire, even if it is not satisfied, people can live. The third type of need is neither innate nor necessary, but many people are trapped in it and cannot extricate themselves, and all kinds of troubles and pains in life originate from this. For example, the unrestrained pursuit of a luxurious life, the pursuit of life pomp, the pursuit of various famous brands, the pursuit of brilliant residence. Such material needs, often the more barren the heart, the more the soul empty people want, they just want to use external abundance to cover the inner emptiness. If this kind of demand is to be pursued, it is endless and endless.

And wise and well-informed people often do not pursue too much external things, enough is good, they will not waste their limited lives on this kind of things that have no fundamental impact on human happiness after reaching a certain level, but after meeting their natural needs, they will wholeheartedly seek what is inside, rather than satisfying external desires. Because they know that a person needs a full heart to achieve lasting happiness, and what a person's inner world is like, the world in which he lives is.

If a person's heart is abundant enough, even if he lives a life that others seem to be poor, he can be poor and happy, and he will not be troubled by it. For example, Yan Hui, "A small meal, a scoop of drink, people are overwhelmed, and they will not change their happiness", this is the real way. When people's basic needs are met, true and lasting happiness has nothing to do with how much money they have, otherwise, the typical example of happiness should be the rich, and the poor have no possibility of happiness. Therefore, Schopenhauer once frankly said that a person's happiness, and even his entire way of living, lies in his own internal quality.