Fwd: FW: [Daily Quote] Why Shouldn't One Have Pleasure?

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MillionPaths , " Ben Hassine " <ben.hassine

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Why Shouldn't One Have Pleasure?

 

 

 

You see a beautiful sunset, a lovely tree, a river that has a wide,

curving

movement, or a beautiful face, and to look at it gives great

pleasure,

delight. What is wrong with that? It seems to me the confusion and

the

misery begin when that face, that river, that cloud, that mountain

becomes a

memory, and this memory then demands a greater continuity of

pleasure; we

want such things repeated. We all know this. I have had a certain

pleasure,

or you have had a certain delight in something, and we want it

repeated.

Whether it be sexual, artistic, intellectual, or something not quite

of this

character, we want it repeated-and I think that is where pleasure

begins to

darken the mind and create values which are false, not actual.

 

 

 

What matters is to understand pleasure, not try to get rid of it-

that is too

stupid. Nobody can get rid of pleasure. But to understand the nature

and the

structure of pleasure is essential; because if life is only

pleasure, and if

that is what one wants, then with pleasure go the misery, the

confusion, the

illusions, the false values which we create, and therefore there is

no

clarity.

 

 

 

The Book of Life - April 5

 

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