If we can lean into the reality of our situation and approach it with these principles we will truly experience contentment.
In general, pleasure is understood broadly below, as including or as included in all pleasant feeling or experience: contentment, delight, ecstasy, elation, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exultation, gladness, gratification, gratitude, joy, liking, love, relief, satisfaction, Schadenfreude, tranquility, and so on.
I wasn't experiencing real contentment because I was making my pursuit the material itself, rather than seeing it as a vehicle for something much bigger.
As the days went on, I couldn't have felt a starker contrast between the spiritual tranquillity and contentment experienced within the confines of the Grand Mosque and sites, and the anxiety and distress caused by those policing it.
Echoing his remarks in the Rules, he says that in the discovery of such truths he has experienced "such extreme contentment that I did not think one could enjoy any sweeter or purer one in this life" (AT VI 27/CSM I 124).
Despite the many long sex scenes that allow Nadas to indulge his talent for physical description, the first orgasm isn't until Page 634: "She had never before experienced such profound sexual contentment with a man".
We've all experienced that feeling, that contentment of the table.
And so, along with the exhaustion and relentlessness (and joy and contentment), I experienced fear and trepidation.
When we think back at what we were able to live on, and the contentment we experienced with much less than we have now, we are able to realize that the adjustment may not be as bad as we imagine.
I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain.
A video (below) released by British Airways concludes that at first when a traveler is settling in there are "fluctuations in mood," but -- surprise, surprise -- when the traveler consumes food or a drink or can "sink into deep, undisturbed sleep," they experience relaxation and contentment.
