Here again, Costa Rica wins the day, for achieving contentment and longevity in an environmentally sustainable way.
She said that she had recently decided that life is "about achieving contentment.... You're not always going to be ridiculously happy".
By observing the earnest Barak and his snappish wife, she grew to feel deeply for these struggling humans, who, she says, overcome guilt and suffering to achieve contentment.
Baking bread is not simply about turning water, yeast and flour into food; it is about "intention" and "connections" and achieving "contentment in one's soul," he says.
But if so much of his love of travel was predicated on a need for escape and solitude, hasn't he killed his new career as a travel writer by achieving contentment?
While it is unclear whether her objection is a psychological one or a normative one, she does maintain that achieving contentment requires an 'infinite science' (4:289) so that we might know all of the impact of our actions, and so properly evaluate them.
Keeping the emotional connection active is necessary to achieve contentment.
Sadhguru, who is also the founder of the Isha Foundation, recently told HuffPost Live host Nancy Redd that achieving contentment starts with separating ourselves from what influences us.
An artist doesn't achieve what Buddy achieved with contentment.
According to another British survey, conducted by HuffPost UK and YouGov, we strike the best work-life balance at age 34, and achieve true contentment at age 38.
In the context of the book as a whole it means that one reads the day-by-day, what's-gonna-go-wrong-next? account of impediments overcome with far greater attentiveness than the passages of achieved and qualified contentment.
