baby-come-fly-with-me wrote:Floda wrote:The title of this thread could be seen as something of an 'Oxymoron' since, in my own opinion, having seen so much pain and suffering in the time I have lived, I really desire (want) peace and contentment.
How does one become 'Driven' to attain such an ambitious (if one could describe such as thus) goal
You have to have a positive attutude only without, your buggered
we have all encountered pain of some sort, but some, well it can make people stronger and aim high, others dont get over it and remain negative, this is sad...
You have completely misunderstood that which I was attempting to illustrate.
Put another way.
If a person wishes to attain enlightenment and THAT is the persons main desire/want/objective. (The WANT in Life)
DRIVE is of no consequence since the route to enlightenment demands that such forceful thoughts/actions/desires MUST be avoided since the presence of them (and DRIVE) will not permit the development of the state of mind sought by he/she who seeks it.
Thus, I mentioned that the TITLE of the thread COULD be seen as an 'Oxymoron'.
I really cannot understand the confusion such a simple illustration seems to have caused, small wonder that NOTHING ever reaches a conclusion on this forum.
As to my buggered
, kindly remind me to compliment you on your good manners in using such expressions, I thought you were a Lady.