We use things for other purposes, than they in themselves are implying

We have tied our thoughts and feelings to the things, so that we can´t feel happy without them: they feed our vanity, they give us social prestige, they give us means for display of force.

We use them for other purposes, than they in themselves are implying.

That we need food, clothes, shelter, is natural and not wrong, but when we are dependent of them in order to be able to satisfy our love of lust, when the things not only become a psychological necessity, but directly an existential necessity, then they are taking an all too colossal place in our life.

That way arises the fights and the conflicts for achieving and keeping the things, which we are dependent of. And this fight is unnatural.

The ideology of needs distorts the human nature

We always want something else than what is necessary in order to cover our daily needs.

It would perhaps be enough for a human being to get a bit of food, a few clothes and a small room to stay in; but we want something else. We want to become a famous person, have a position in the society, have power, prestige, to be God´s chosen, to experience that our friends think high thoughts about us, etc. The whole of the modern management and coaching industry is based on, that all people ought to think in that way.

The problem is difficult, because the inner desire after being the richest and most influential human being, the desire after becoming something, only can be fulfilled through the possession of things, food, clothes and shelter included.

You cling to these things in order to become rich inwards; what will say: to be free and independent in psychological and existential sense. Therefore, you become unhappy when you can´t get what you want, or when you lose it.

When things are connected with existential necessity they take unnatural forms

The natural needs of our senses have their place, and when you understand them, they don't take the unnatural forms, which they get when they are connected with existential necessity; that is to say: a self-made necessity in order to be able to be alive, to exist, and to have an identity.

When we are dependent of things in order to satisfy our lust, they are filling too much in our lives

We have tied our thoughts and feelings to the things, so that we can´t feel happy without them: they feed our vanity, they give us social prestige, they give us means for display of force.

We use things for other purposes, than they in themselves are implying.

That we need food, clothes, shelter, is natural and not wrong, but when we are dependent of them in order to be able to satisfy our love of lust, when the things not only become a psychological necessity, but directly an existential necessity, then they are taking an all too colossal place in our lives.

That way arise the fights and the conflicts for achieving and keeping the things, which we are dependent of.

And this fight is unnatural.

Are you dependent of things in order to achieve and keep an existential happiness and meaning?

As a Life Artist you must be able to ask yourself the question about, whether you are dependent of things in order to achieve and keep an existential happiness and meaning?

If you seriously try to answer this apparently simple question, you will discover how complicated your thoughts and life of feelings are.