Principles: 5) Don’t JUST Seek Your Own Pleasure

Pleasure is a source of enjoyment, pleasing quality or thing, or that which pleases or gratifies the senses or the mind.  

Gratifying the mind or the senses is to give preference to the physical portion of your self.  There is so much more than just your physical self. There are other people to consider. There are the aspects of character, spirit, creativity and much more.  

While it is generally not harmful to seek your own pleasure, this principle states don’t just seek your own pleasure.  If all you do is seek your own pleasure then you are missing out on helping others, and, perhaps, missing out on focusing on your own growth.  

The statement may also be read don’t just seek your own pleasure.  Seek to share pleasure with others; seek to bring pleasure to the divine by “strengthening” your non-physical attributes through growth.

There is more to living than seeking pleasure.  Pursue the attributes of “non-physical” things like character, spirit, creativity and such to “exercise” your spirit as well as gratify your mind.

Don’t JUST seek your own pleasure.  Pursue growth.