Even though you can certainly achieve happiness and mental health with our financial health,

the truth is in modern society, most of us understand that financial wealth can give us freedom,

it can give us time, it can give us peace. You're not going to buy your way to happiness,

but you will buy your way out of common causes of unhappiness. In olden times,

one of the routes to finding peace was you would become a monk, you would renounce things,

you would renounce sex, you would renounce money, you would renounce shelter, you would

renounce attachments, and you would go off in the woods. And after 30 years, when you'd finally

gotten over the fact that you weren't going to have these things, then you might find some peace.

And the truth is, most of them probably never got over it. Lots of monks out there, not a lot of

enlightened people. I think it was Ocho. He said, every time I meet a prostitute, she wants to talk

about God, and every time I meet a priest, he wants to talk about sex. Whatever it is that you deny

yourself will become your new prison. If you have a desire for material comfort, it's actually going

to be easier and faster to fulfill it in modern society if you know what you're doing in our

capable. And then it will be for you to renounce it. It'll take a lifetime to renounce it, and maybe

then it won't work. But you can make some money and be materially successful and less than the

lifetime. You can get there without it and probably have a more lasting form without it, but that's

playing on hard mode. Physical health, of course, is the foundation of everything. If you don't have

your physical health, you have nothing. Another great confusion saying that I liked was that a sick

man only wants one thing, a healthy man wants 10,000 things. When you're sick, when you're down,

all your other desires run away. Without the ability to get up and function, you can't turn into

this desiring machine that you are. Physical health is actually the most important, but I speak the

least on the topic because I have the least specific and unique knowledge. I'm not self-actualized

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