Pleasure evolved as a guidance system — a tool to steer us toward things that help us survive and thrive. But like any tool, it can be misused. It can be hijacked, giving you cheap pleasure with no real benefit. That’s where your intelligent mind must step in — to see clearly, to put things in their place, and to use pleasure as it was meant to be used — in service of your life.
Never chase pleasure that doesn’t strengthen your life. No empty entertainment, no hollow food, no shallow talk — no meaningless highs. Every time you do, you dull your sensitivity and weaken your future.
Build real systems. Forge a life that earns its pleasure. That’s where the real reward lives.
— Warrior’s Path 