But there is a principle from economics that you that you write about the principles di diminishing marginal utility . And I love the concept of happiness , islands , happiness , deserts . And the idea that as you're getting a good return on your smart energy investment at a certain point in time , it will diminish you still may be getting more , but it's diminishing and that's how , you know , to stop just like in our capitalist society .
And that consciousness is mostly emptiness . And that emptiness is what I would call happiness . And emptiness is what I might call f it's a fullness , it's a full emptiness , which is a strange thing to say .
And emptiness is what I might call f it's a fullness , it's a full emptiness , which is a strange thing to say . But the idea is that happiness pervades everything and everyone uh no matter who or what that thing is or that person is , that's a hard thing to kind of hear . It sounds so abstract , almost very esoteric .
Uh So , yeah , that's what that final chapter is ultimately about . Can you imagine if happiness was taught to young people in school ? I just love the idea so much .
Sometimes the word happiness doesn't resonate with people as deeply as other words , but I'll call it happiness for now . Happiness seems to be something that we experience when we realize our desire or fulfill a dream or reach a goal , but it's not a feeling of a desire that eventuates in happiness . It's actually ultimately the forgetting of desire , the forgetting of the dream , dream or even a goal for a little short period of time that forgetting is blissful .
