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How to Create Atomic Habits for a Better Life with James Clear

The One You Feed

CHAPTER

Happiness Is the Absence of Desire

Happiness is simply the absence of desire. If you don't have a desire to change your current state, if you're happy with then you by definition are happy with your current state. You can't permanently be in a state of no desire. But you can practice returning to a state of contentment or returning to aState of not wanting. And that actually, perhaps that word provides a little insight into it.

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