How come when we reach satifaction, we still aim for satsifaction? Is satisfaction endless?

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How come when we reach satifaction, we still aim for satsifaction? Is satisfaction endless?
Satisfaction centers on particularities - a drink when thirsty, food when hungry; or chocolate or sex. So the urge for it is ever renewed. But people mistake that urge, for the search for contentment which is deeper. Contentment comes from embracing reality and what we have. It derives from our own psyche. Religionists speaking of the satisfaction from embracing God etc, are still relying on an externality, illusion or not. That's a vulnerable and I think myopic position. To the extent that we are engaged with the world and are affected by it, contentment can never be complete - we empathize painfully with the victims of war, or are disturbed by what we perceive as dangerous stupidities, etc. But we can still experience contentment in accepting the world and doing what we can about it. So contentment can be disrupted by externalities, or by perturbations of our mind, but rests with us. Chocolate and spectator sports are simply not enough! It helps to remember that in an imperfect world there is thankfully room for us - at least until overpopulation and fundamentalist ideologies squeeze until the pips squeak.
Reply:Yes according to the great saints and spiritual masters once one attains perfection then even perfection ca be more perfected. When one reaches the highest transcendental love which is the greatest satisfaction to all living beings then one also can continue eternally to increase that love and increase in that satisfaction. Yet one will also strive for more and more and more of that love. It's a God thing. Gauranga! (gore-runga) Universal greeting. May the Greatest Good an Highest Joy be yours! and even more of it. Smiling.
Reply:I think so. Life would be boring without its little "problems" to solve; goals to eventually obtain...





But even more than reaching goals, I think living the "journey" to its fullest can't be underestimated.





You can find satisfaction in all the steps along the way, not just in the goal.





If you only strive for the goal and pay attention to nothing else you'll have missed a lot along the way. And, what's more, you've set yourself up for an illusion--as if the goal were the only prize. The building is satisfying too. So is the tweaking stage after you've obtained or achieved something.





It's good to have goals, excellent to achieve them, but best to milk the most out of every day inbetween :)





My thoughts.
Reply:yes, it is endless. the very quality of desire is that it can never be fulfilled. as soon as one is fulfilled, the next one is there. only when you become aware of this fact and see that you waste your precious time by running and running and therefore missing that which is already here, detachment form desire happens and you become aware of the abundance that is already here.
Reply:Spare a thought for those without! As The Rolling Stones sang - and continue to do so - "I can't get no ..." I am in this category, despite their double negative lyric" I wonder if this means that one day "I will be satisfied ..." Name that tune!





'Satisfaction' is so bland. A good cover for teachers who had nothing to say about pupils they knew nothing about. 'A satisfactory term's work'. I always wondered who was satisfied - and it was probably only the teacher when he or she got home from a hard day's work of writing bland reports. I did have one teacher who was more mischievous and wrote of me, 'Satisfactorily bad'. I loved it and it inspired me to greater heights of mediocrity!





Therefore, I feel that 'satisfaction', far from being endless, has no beginning.





I am one of those people about whom others wrote reports similar to ones you must have read before - 'He sets himself low standards which he consistently fails to achieve.'





Better than 'A satisfactory term's work'. When I was a kid, we counted the NUMBER of words that a teacher had written.





I always derived satisfaction, at least, from that.
Reply:The powers that be require man to need, want desire and be driven by dissatisfaction. Cost of living, diseases and cures all exist to keep man in a state of struggle.





As indoctrinated minds they utter ad verbatim and repetitiously of the need for discontent, struggle and evil in the world. When questioned as to their reason of motivation that stare with blank faces and an overwhelming sense of pity overcomes.





There is no profit in peace or so the malignant maladministrants would brainwash their minions to thinking. Man made insecure and untrusting of his own nature reiterates all that is nagged into him constantly from state institution of education and their cowhore the media.





Truth, Wisdom, Love Peace and Honour are passé and rarely or infrequently used words.





War rights hate race religion territorial defence this is the language of this age of Armageddon
Reply:Satisfaction is a level of fulfilment that is differently set for different people the fulfilment is a certain state of balance, harmony or peacefulness within the absence or presence of which we can feel. When for instance we are thirsty we lack water in our system and when drink water the state of balance between solid and fluid contents is restored, then when we feel that all things of our plans are coming along nicely together we feel ourselves in a state of harmony in life, and we find ourselves in need of some peace when our needs are fulfilled.





Some people have higher satisfaction level then the rest, certain people are hard to please, certain lifestyles are expensive to maintain. Then it is not that level of satisfaction is different for different people, as it can vary in the life is same people with time and opportunity. I for instance can find myself satisfied with very little but once I reach this level it is likely that the level of my satisfaction is raised to an all time higher level, then I also remember how easy it was for me to be happy when I was a child.





Then satisfaction truly is a matter of regular maintenance both in time and opportunity. I can raise my expectations of happiness and find myself happy just the way I expect, but I can also lower my expectations and be happy with relatively little. My desire, ambitions, wishes and dreams all contribute to understand of a satisfied life, to my level of satisfaction, and if my desires are inordinate, ambitions unbridled and dreams to expensive then it might become hard for me to be ever satisfied, so true our aim for ultimate satisfaction can lead to endlessness in our pursuits.





Then why not also consider contentment to better understand the meanings of satisfaction and its role in life a human need. In my view we are fully content – content in proper sense as the word contentment is also used vaguely in place of satisfaction - when we learn to become satisfied under all circumstances of a situation of life. Contentment, unlike our need for satisfaction, does not require constant maintenance, but once found in the mind, manifests itself as part of our attitude toward life - contentment is ability innate to human mind and therefore is the ultimate of our satisfaction.
Reply:This is a good question!


No, this is the beauty of the Lord! When you have God in your life, you become fulfilled! He loves you so completely that you hunger no more. He gives you so much to fill your life, that you are never 'bored'. Even though you tire to exhaustion, you keep pushing forward with enthusiam that comes out of nowhere. You find that you have more compassion, understanding, patience, oh, and you love to give, or at least I do! I will give anything (within reason) to anyone for the asking! No, less than that. If someone simply says; "I like it"; I say; "Take it, it's yours"!


They think I'm nuts! :D LOL!


The Lord fills your life with so many wonderful things, good, positive things. I know know that I am so richly rewarded for everything I do in the Name of the Lord. How could I possibly want for more?


Thank-you for the opportunity to share!
Reply:I believe that the human mind works something like an insects in some ways.





Ever notice ants around food? Most of the ants will be on the food tearing it apart and dragging it off, but some ants, regardless of the found treasures, will continue to scout for even more food.





Our goal in life is to have goals. Which goals are unimportant by comparison, we simply need to have goals and the opportunity to work towards them to be content.





Doctors of science are content to study and research incessantly. While many people flounder around seeking less organized goals.





But the common link is the desire to have the journey; the goal itself is relatively unimportant.





Satisfaction simply signals the beginning of a new goal.
Reply:Satisfaction is the end for which need is aimed at. Need is endless only when you don't know what the need is. Satisfaction is endlessly repetitive if nothing gets in your way. What do you suppose the chance for that is.
Reply:Yes.





Once satisfaction is complete we shut down and die, like male salmon who have mated, or rats in rat utopia.





If we are given everything we could ask for we loose the challenge of life and the will to live.
Reply:I love your question!. As I have a strong sense that all of life's experiences and feelings are totally temporary and transient and so many of my pains arise from trying to hang on to a certain space in time which is subject to change.
Reply:Satisfaction comes as a desire is fulfilled or being fulfilled. Now, desires are like "things" the body needs for its proper functioning and so as long as the body is alive, desires will constantly rise.
Reply:It is possible to get tired of satisfaction but only if one does not understand that one single satisfaction is more than enough. We ought to apply moderation to satisfaction.
Reply:mental satisfaction


emotional sat.


social sat.


financial sat.


career sat.


sexual sat.


spiritual sat.





what kind of satisfaction you mean ??
Reply:It is not "satisfaction" which is eternal...





it is our desire for constant satisfaction that is eternal.
Reply:Wants are unlimited. People are never satisfied for GOOD.


When people are satisfied the Earth stops rotating.
Reply:I reckon satisfaction requires maintenance.
Reply:Wishes are an endless menu.
Reply:By the time we are satisfied dissatisfaction is waiting for us


already.
Reply:People are never pleased, they want more and more... and more... forever... I think...
Reply:We easily grown accustomed to what satisfies us and then we need more. That's what makes drug addicts.