Hello again, beautiful beings of light, and welcome back to another expand podcast episode

with yours truly, Elizabeth April. Today, I want to talk about pleasure. And no, not in a sexual

sense, but in a hedonistic sense. Now, I've always

believed that our mind is the epitome of all suffering to the point where I really tried to

just kind of shut down my own mind for quite some time, only to realize that every other aspect of my life suffered

because I didn't have access to my ego. I didn't have access to what I wanted, what I desired,

what I pleasureed. So I will say before we get into this concept, that you take everything with a grain of salt,

and I believe that the ultimate happiness that we can derive is truly from balance.

And that's really what it comes down to.

So everything in balance, everything in moderation, and keep that in mind with this episode topic.

But this is really important to not only just contemplate, but to apply to your own life.

And it's this concept of seeking pleasure.

And especially in, you know, 2022 and beyond, we have this base standard where everything

in our life derives pleasure and creates pleasure. And I actually think I was just listening

to a podcast the other day, and they mentioned that seeking happiness

is actually a very Western view, that there was a conversation, I don't know, you know,

this is all like kind of secondary information, but there was a conversation, I guess,

between a Russian and an American, And the American asked the Russian,

do you ever get depressed?

And the Russian answered, well, yeah, of course.

But I accept it.

I'm okay with not feeling good.

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