Spiritual Quotes On pleasure

Just as [after eating] a jalebi (an Indian sweet), tea tastes bland, similarly, it is only after you 'taste' [experience] the bliss of the Self, that the pleasures of worldly life feel insipid. As long as the pleasures of worldly life do not feel insipid, you cannot break free from worldly life!

Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self (kusang). Whereas happiness will not leave from where there is excessive association with Self-realized beings or spiritual discourses (satsang)!