Sentence examples for material pleasure from inspiring English sources

It is these dissatisfactions that drive so many Americans — who cannot understand why lives filled with material pleasure still feel unfulfilled — to their meditation mats.

The more you can deny yourself immediate material pleasure, the better chance you'll have of getting your business off the ground.

Although the training of robots could inspire us all to make things better and better, it could also plateau into the mediocrity of "good enough". If the quality of what robots can produce becomes the default at some sub-optimal level, we may find ourselves doubly impoverished, shorn both of meaningful employment and true material pleasure.

If he or she is to live every day as his last, then he has to decide if his or her last day on earth, his or her last supper, as it were, will be an occasion to grab for as much as much material pleasure as he or she can get or an occasion to do something for others.

It contains views on dharma (moral conduct), jnana (understanding of the nature of the self), vairagya (detachment from material pleasure), and bhakti (pure, selfless devotion to God), the four essentials Hindu scriptures describe as necessary for a jiva (soul) to attain moksha (salvation).

Not that she is a stranger to material pleasures.

A true radical, Songy doesn't let himself be swayed from his ideals by material pleasures.

In Varanasi, the material pleasures that came so easily in Venice remain out of reach and lose their significance.

Sailing along on peace and prosperity, it busied itself with material pleasures and an elaborately contrived realness.

Luxuriant and prurient passions are partially satisfied; desires for autonomy are offered fulfillment; material pleasures and possibilities become palpable.

"People enjoy fewer material pleasures in periods of recession, so want more visual pleasures, and there's more variation among short haircuts than long".