Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts About Success

Underneath the dragon's  hoard -- never put to good use -- lies someone's skull.

Success

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/success.html

"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word "success" - is our national disease." 

William James 

Pseudo-Success And The Un-Doing Of America

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/03/pseudo-success-and-undoing-of-america.html

Thomas Merton was once asked to write a chapter for a book entitled "Secrets of Success."  He replied: "If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again.  If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this:  Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing:  success." 

Bob Dylan On Money And Success

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-dylan-on-money-and-success.html

"The secret to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you can do anything."

Television executive counseling newcomer Daniel Schorr, 1953

28 Enormities That Prevent Conscionable People From Hoping Trump Is A Successful President

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/28-enormities-that-prevent-conscionable.html

Alan: Without mindfulness, the tyranny of the "Disjointed Moment" binds us to the daemons of fashion, fatuity and dispirited physicality. Burdened by the claustrophobic crush of materialist immediacy, we accumulate tokens of "success," slowly coming to believe (whether consciously or not) that "s/he who dies with the most toys wins."

"You've Been Trumped," A Documentary About Donald Trump's Imperious Takeover Of "Scotland"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/youve-been-trumped-documentary-on.html