Guides For The Disillusioned: Ways To Live A Happy Life: The Definition Of Disillusioned With Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798518532229)

Have you ever achieved something, a goal or ambition, and thought your life would change forever, only to find that life just goes on the same? So you try and achieve something else, a new project, new relationship, new job or town... and at the end of that, you are still unsatisfied somehow? According to this book, you are trying to be larger than life itself - and that is impossible.

This book aims to show you the origins and strange nature of our everyday goals and ambitions and reveals why their attainment will rarely bring us the happiness we hope for.

The author examines the myths of ambition and the often malevolent forces that entice us to sacrifice our lives in slavery to a false idea of future happiness - a happiness that depends entirely upon personal achievement. Understanding these myths opens the door to a rich life now, and the primary purpose of all sentient beings that have been forgotten among the hysteria and noise of modern culture.

Drawing on personal experiences, human stories, and religious and philosophical texts, here are suggestions of alternative ambitions based on some often unpalatable truths that we prefer to ignore, and the simple realities of being human in a universe indifferent to our needs.