Living in the Now

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i've heard am cartoli give a speech about living in the now. He invited me and leonard malandaw to go behind he curtain o visitation. This was an oddist at the shrine. About three thousand people, each of whom paid on was te two 300 bucks of ticket. And you know, that the parking lot was filled with teslas and lexis and mercedes. These were kind of the beautiful people from hollywood,. actually, that were there. They're basically, you know, walking around on stage and jeans and emty shirts, nd at barefeet, talking about just living In The Now. So what's the appeal of that in human

We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? In his latest book, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning, Bloom aims to understand how people find meaning in their lives, and, moreover, to explore what he calls, “the sweet spot” — the proper balance between pleasure and suffering. As one of the world’s leading psychologists, drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, Bloom shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure.