731: The More You Chase Happiness, the More it Eludes You

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. - Henry David Thoreau / Sage vacation tips - don’t travel for happiness - travel to learn, rejuvenate and especially to cultivate devotion / satva guna conditions one by a sense of happiness / we’re second hand gods - we manipulate, we don’t create / we’re not destroying the Earth, we’re destroying our relationship with her / seeing personhood behind nature - primitive or profound? SB 4.18.23-32