"When man reaches his precious goals, then he realizes that there are many things around them. For example, you may have struggled all your life to earn money believing that the day you make it you will be able to live relaxed. But you've been tense all your life, tension has become your discipline, and at the end of your life, when you've got all the money you want, you can't relax. Consequently you are not a winner, you are a loser. You lose your appetite, you destroy your health, you destroy your sensitivity, you destroy your sense of aesthetics because you don't have time for all those things that don't produce money.
You are running after money: who has time to contemplate roses, who has time to contemplate the flight of birds, who has time to contemplate the beauty of human beings? All those things you are postponing until when you have everything, then you will relax and enjoy... But by the time you have everything you will have become a certain type of person: someone blind to roses, someone blind to beauty, someone who cannot enjoy music, someone who cannot understand dance, someone who cannot understand poetry, someone who can only understand money. But that money does not give satisfaction.
That's the cause of depression. That's why there's only depression in developed countries and among the richer classes in developed countries - in developed countries there are also poor, but they don't suffer from depression - and now you can't give hope to that person who makes his depression go away, because he already has everything, more than you can promise him. His situation is truly regrettable. He never thought about the implications, he never thought about the consequences, he never thought about what he would lose by making money. He never thought he would lose everything that could have made him happy; he put all those things aside. He had no time, the competition was atrocious and he had to be insensitive. And in the end he discovers that his heart is dead, that his life has no meaning. He doesn't see any possibility of change in the future, because: "What else is there...?
I met a rich man, I had everything you can imagine, but I was absolutely incapable of enjoying anything. You have to learn to enjoy things. It requires a certain discipline, a certain art; contact with the great things in life takes time. But the man who pursues money passes before all that is a door to the Divine, and he comes to the end of the road and before him there is nothing but death.
His whole life was miserable. He tolerated it, ignored it, hoping that things would change. Until he could no longer ignore it and tolerate it because tomorrow there is only death and nothing more. And all the ignored misery accumulated over a lifetime, all the suffering he has ignored explodes into his being.
The richest man is, at heart, the poorest man. To be rich and not to be poor is a great art. Being rich being poor is the other aspect of art. There are poor people in whom you will find immense wealth. They have nothing, but they are rich. Their wealth is not material, their wealth is their being, their multidimensional experiences. And there are rich people who have everything but are absolutely poor, empty. Inside there is only one cemetery...
The main thing in life is to find meaning in the present moment.