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Dami\u00e1n Ruiz<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I understand that we live in a highly competitive world in which many people pursue and aspire to economic, professional and social success, whether to keep it, achieve it or surpass it. All of this is perfectly legitimate, and I will not be the one to censure each person’s drive to pursue their dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n However, if all this is done at the cost of mental and physical balance, what has been achieved is nothing more than a masquerade, a false appearance that sooner or later will begin to be destroyed, leaving its protagonist completely helpless in the face of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n Because who has achieved their goals, the person or the addict?<\/span><\/p>\n Hell is the state of mind of those who sell their soul to the devil. That is, they give themselves, metaphorically speaking, to him so that he rewards them with a worldly image of success. Sad reality.<\/span><\/p>\n How many broken toys attain glory only to begin a gradual fall when they can no longer be sustained!<\/span><\/p>\n There is a right to desire, even desire in its highest dimension, but the person must hold on to himself, to his discipline, his principles, his values, his cultural tradition, even to a higher vision of existence, and from there to strive for it.<\/span><\/p>\n It is not necessary to lead a prudish life, nor to shed one’s ego – we are Westerners – nor to flatten one’s emotions. It is about having the courage to seek success through one’s own skills and qualities.<\/span><\/p>\n Anything less will be a kind of Icarus flight, soaring high only to plummet low.<\/span><\/p>\n If we add to this a rational management of life we can enjoy it and prosper without imbalance.<\/span><\/p>\n We have great examples of successful people who have stayed away from drugs and all kinds of histrionics, and others who do not even know how to manage the first step of ascent.<\/span><\/p>\n In big business, in show business, in music, in sport, in all fields,… serene and highly efficient people, with an enormous ability to manage their lives, and others whose every little movement leads them to greater imbalance and cocaine consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dami\u00e1n Ruiz I understand that we live in a highly competitive world in which many people pursue and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\n