What Is Pleasure? Comments

Humiliation or Humility?

There is happiness in giving and taking. Nice poem.

I sense in your definition pleasure is a mutually satisfying exchange that bonds two persons: It is that bond which persists when the moment of pleasure is over. Like so much of our human existence, experience has two dimensions, one is intense and transient, the other subtle but lasting. This is the experience of Music. We both love Mahler's 9th Symphony - we enjoy the 90 minutes of hearing a performance, but we carry the vivid memory of the music in our hearts always. Everything in the soul or heart enters the interior through one or more of the senses. Poets and philosophers, saints and sinners can agree on that point.