Glossary · Term

Failure

The situation we arrive at when, instead of using tools of love, we resort to selfishness, prohibition, imposition, aggression, etc.

In the Foundation's Topics

The main cause of the failures many people experience in their lives is their constant fight against what life has given them.
From the topic Accepting in Order to Live Without Suffering
None of this is true, but the person believes it is, and that belief will cause them many failures in their life.
From the topic Learning to Manage Your Thoughts
When life shows that confronting the external is useless, we make the second mistake: blaming ourselves for the failure, until we are saturated with suffering.
From the topic Learning to Transcend Fears

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