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If you do it right, then you can relax most of your life. Hustling for success is a fairy tale for stressy anxious wannabes.

DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE ON

– being afraid & stressing yourself
– competing/comparing with others
– craving for more
– collecting stuff

ALL YOU NEED

… is already here. Dance, experiment and play with it, ok. But everything else (the forced and stressy part) is compensation – the urge to fill the bottomless hole of emptiness, inferiority and fear inside one’s soul.

THE WORLD IS FULL

… of successful, famous and rich people – since 20 years I have them as clients – and many of them feel horrible, miserable and sick. Sick of themselves and their illusion that all their hustling, owning and fighting could fill them up and stabilize them. But the more they collect outside – the more they prove their frightening inside.
They asked for therapy – and they cured me: from stressing myself, owning stuff and craving for more.

A BALANCED PERSON

… who earns good money would never work and waste more of its time and energy for just more success, fame or money. That’s dump. It would do the opposite: stress less, read a book, meditate, have a walk or a tea and be more relaxed, creative, balanced, life-, growth-, nature-, health-, friendship- and family-orientated. It would avoid all the stuff that stressed people regret on their deathbed.

BE SURE

A solid, stable person is almost never stressed or trys to force something. She/He optimizes its game, garden or system and lets it happen, enjoys the fruits or just lets it be … lets it go – if it doesn’t work out. #amorfati

DOESN’T MATTER ANYWAY

Soon we all will be dust in the wind and I love that: Our biggest freedom is just a death ahead. And we won’t take anything with us. So there is not a single valid reason in the whole universe to stress yourself … Not even for a second. Not because of others. Not because of yourself. Acknowledge that. Accept it. Respect, love and breathe it. Smile. Relax … and never forget:

HAPPINESS

… is neither a goal nor a product – but an attitude. If you don’t have it right now, from within, then nothing from the outside can ever give it to you. And if you don’t have it RIGHT NOW – then what the heck have you done in all the years? For sure not the right things.

BUT IF

… you have the happy attitude, then you will feel fulfilled even with the little things like a fruit in your hand and a matcha in your glass – and that is the key … to everything.

EVERYTHING

… can fulfill you – if you stop to be empty. Everything will make you feel stable – if you stop to be afraid. And that is success, with a smile: to govern your attitude and perspective. Everything else in the outside world is secondary, just a shadow, the Matrix … or Maya – like it’s called in Sanskrit.

I’LL REPEAT

Everything can fulfill you – if you stop to be empty. Everything will make you feel stable – if you stop to be afraid.
That’s it.

Dr. Christian Zippel | AMOR FATI

AUTHOR: Dr. Z

Dr. Christian Zippel is a doctor of philosophy, author of 17 books and therapist. He loves books, dumbbells and extremes. Dr. Z lives minimalist, free and without a permanent residence. The AMOR FATI philosophy is based on his vision and work.