Life is Difficult

"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

M. Scott Peck

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck



"Life is simple, Stupid.
Don't make it so difficult."

My Uncle Ronnie.

How can both of these quotes make sense to me?

Seriously, how can they not?

Life is simple

and accept it-then life is no longer difficult

Life is simple, we make it complicated...

Thank you

[quote="Rocda" post=169826How can both of these quotes make sense to me?[/quote]

Do they have to? Pick the one that connects to you the most and forget the other. If you don't connect to either one so what. It appears to me the kiss is the more important than the quotes.

Rickie The Grey wrote: It appears to me the kiss is the more important than the quotes.

You old smoothie... :lol:...

Rickie has some good Breakfast in bed ideas for the missus too, lol... I havent told my wife, she would hunt him down for a good breakfast...

Rocda wrote: Life is simple, Stupid.
Don't make it so difficult."

My Uncle Ronnie.

KISS
"Keep It Simple Stupid." - Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Also commonly used throughout military branches.

"I'm not testing you, Obi-Wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, to Obi-Wan Kenobi

Rickie has some good Breakfast in bed ideas for the missus too, lol... I havent told my wife, she would hunt him down for a good breakfast...[/

I think I'm lucky for that? :laugh: How would I explain that to Mrs Rickie? :blush: :whistle:

I'm dieting now anyway. Can't get too creative with egg whites.

1952...is a very good vintage.

They both makes sense the way that both versions of the code make sense. They seem different at first glance but in reality they mean the same thing. If we accept that life is difficult it becomes simple. It is by not accepting that life is difficult that we make it difficult.

Revan Falton wrote: KISS
"Keep It Simple Stupid." - Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Also commonly used throughout military branches.

This is one of my favorite acronyms. (and my favorite band lol)

Sometimes it feels difficult. Sometimes it feels easy. However, the truth is neither. The truth is what it is before we've decided anything about it.

Life just "is".

Like Jestor said, we make it complicated. And that is okay.

The less judgement we pass to ourselves and others, the more we see the truth.