The philosophy of slow life has a very strong methodological approach to understanding a person himself.
In life, a person is driven by dissatisfaction. And a person seeks happiness in order to get rid of this dissatisfaction. But studying the very phenomenon of happiness, sooner or later, he comes to the conclusion that happiness is not achieved by a successful finish (if only because the finish does not exist), but lies in the ability to enjoy the run itself. But can you enjoy it? You can, if you know how to manage your attitude to reality.
Reality is like a faceted stone: no matter how you turn it, some facets will still be hidden. By turning this “stone” in our hands, we can focus on certain aspects of being, and through this, influence the nature of our emotional assessment.
Thus, a person is able to get rid of dissatisfaction. But not by trying to satisfy another whim, in a hurry pushing aside other thirsty, but by understanding that we already have everything we need for happiness: energy, will and freedom.
When we shed the skin of a mad sheep and banish the shameful haste from our lives, we find peace through wholeness. By gaining wholeness, we find ourselves. And this is done by rejecting those primitive goals that political strategists and marketers hang in front of us.
Having abandoned the pursuit of a carrot suspended in front of his nose, a person ceases to be a puppet in the clutches of the outside world. He gains spiritual freedom.
However, one should not think that this is akin to some kind of "enlightenment" that fell on a person's head once and for all. Not. Awareness is the light of that light bulb (volitional center) that tends to burn with varying degrees of brightness, and periods of awareness are inevitably replaced by periods of darkness. But do not worry about this, because these are the laws of nature, the laws of the universe. And they are beyond our moral assessments.