You don't know how much you need necessity to drive you, because maybe you're not very disciplined, and if a catatstrophe doesn't immediately befall you if you don't act forthrightly today, then maybe you never act forthrightly. The gap between your foolishness and the punishment is lengthened by your unearned wealth so you never grow up and learn. You have to get yourself away from your dependency in order to allow necessity to drive you forward.

The positive emotion is generated in the conception of the better future and then the evidence that you generate yourself that you're moving towards it. That's where the positive and fulfilling meaning of life comes.

You want to be going somewhere that's good enough so that the going is worth the while. You can ask yourself that.

We know what's wrong with life. It's rife with suffering and insufficiency and deception and evil. It's all of that, obviously. Okay, what would make the journey worthwhile? You can ask yourself that.

In order to bear up under this load, what is it I would need to be striving to attain? If you ask yourself that (that's to knock, and the door will open) that's what that means. If you ask yourself then you will find and answer. And you'll think you'll shrink away from it, you think well there's no way I could do that. Well, you don't know what you could do. You don't know what's possible. You're not as much as you could be. God only knows what you could do and have and give if you sacrificed everything to it.