Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Do you get upset when your favorite sports team loses or plays poorly?
*Do you gossip about friends, acquaintances or enemies?
*Do you take offense when insulted?
*Do you defend yourself or explain your
actions when criticized?
*Do you hold grudges for longer than one day?
*Do you have difficulty laughing off
embarrassments?
*Do you strive to be a “success” as a person or
to “succeed” at work?
*Do you feel anxious about the future (your
own, or your country’s, or your species’)?
*Do you criticize others (including children and including yourself) for being “goofy” or
“strange” or “silly” or “immature”?
*Do you avoid courteous banter with others, preferring instead to talk primarily about
“important things”?
*Do you have highly specific life-goals or clearly defined visions for your future?
*Do you feel responsible for anyone else’s happiness?
*Do you worry about anyone or anything more than once a week?
*Do you feel paralyzed or have difficulty in making important decisions?
*Do you become easily bored by everyday tasks & routines?
*Do you go a whole day without stopping once to stand in awe-filled amazement at the
sheer Beauty of nature … or the sky … or another person?
*Do you avoid opportunities to attend to the homeless or the unhappy in your
neighborhood because you have “more important things to do”?
As mentioned earlier, we all have the built-in tendency to be too serious about our lives,
and the questions where you answered “yes” are nothing more than the areas in your life
where you are currently doing so. Collectively, they represent the degree to which your
true Happiness & inner Peace are being hampered by an addiction to seriousness.
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