Why is there a limit to satisfaction? How cn we achieve a lasting happiness or peace then?

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Why is there a limit to satisfaction? How cn we achieve a lasting happiness or peace then?
Saturation rather than satisfaction is the route to lasting happiness. Satisfaction has limited currency.... no sooner is a need or desire fulfilled to attain satisfaction, another need or desire crops up and then yet another and so on... this is an unending chain which can only provide for moments of happiness but not a stable and sustainable one.





We need to get saturated from our desires to break the unending chain. The only way to get saturated is to develop an accepting state of mind... total acceptance of anything that happens or does not happen. There are two ways in my view to attain such a state of mind. The first one is TOTAL faith in God, such that there is nothing to question, nothing to be dissatisfied about, since there is faith that God's will is perfectly and eternally just and proper and nothing at all happens without God's will. The second one is to reign in our ego which is the prime cause for considering anything as unfavorable.... it can be done when we can have the certain knowledge of how small and minuscule we are in this colossal universe and the vast span of time... once we realize how small and insignificant we are, we will be able to accept everything that happens with equanimity.





However, in my experience, neither that kind of TOTAL faith in God nor a TOTAL negation of our ego is entirely practicable for us..... in the circumstances, we can only keep on trying to minimize the occasions when we are unable to accept something either due to ego or lack of total faith.... this way we can maximize the stable state of happiness or peace of mind.





Thanks for raising one of the most important questions of our life!! Hope the above makes some sense.
Reply:'Happiness is like a butterfly, chase it and it will fly beyond your grasp but sit still and peacefully it may come down and rest on you'
Reply:If you had lasting happiness and peace, I think you'd be dead. The human spirit needs a challenge.... after a while lasting happiness and peace would become boring and you'd pick a fight with your neighbour just to relieve the monotony of lasting happiness and peace. Lasting happiness and peace although attractive in theory would become mundane after six months to a year. Then look out.
Reply:roll another joint
Reply:there is no limit to satisfaction
Reply:I don't think there is a limit to satisfaction per say, only other feelings in order to highlight the fact. In other words, sadness exists in order for you to know joy. Darkness exists in order for you to know light. The same goes for satisfaction. A person would need to know what the lack of fulfillment is in order to fully enjoy and appreciate its counterpart. If you were born into a world where there was nothing but satisfaction, you would never be able to appreciate it, you see.





How can you achieve lasting happiness and peace with that? By knowing that living in a world of contrast is the only way to know, appreciate, and enjoy the satisfaction you so desire. Hope that helps :)
Reply:End to satisfaction!!! Don't know about that... U sure u're not thinking of tiredness? Everything I believe boils down 2 the individuals wanting 2 want more %26amp; can handle themselves .......
Reply:There is a limit of satisfaction for us in everything that we all aspire to reach and maintain, then there is a limit to satisfaction that we all dread to be, for once our satisfaction has ran out of its limits we begin to feel the compelling presence of one or the other of our needs that are natured to satisfy.





There is a certain limit of satisfaction in all of us, as the word suggests by its very definition, but this limit might not always be within everyone’s grasp all the time. This knowledge, in my understanding, might come after great deal of effort and experience.





The reason that we do have a limit to satisfaction is the answer to your, and the reason is to be found in the nature of our needs that need to be fulfilled on a regular basis. There are, for instance, lower-level needs, as need for food, shelter and sex, then are medium-level needs, as need for belonging, esteem and knowledge, but the topmost are our needs for self-actualisation, or spiritual needs. Our lower-level needs get fulfilled quickly and therefore make bad motivators in life, as once they are satisfied they stop urging us for further gains within that area. Our medium-level needs take a whole lot longer to be fulfilled and therefore make good motivators in life. But our spiritual needs might never get fully satisfied and the their limit of satisfaction we might never reach.





Satisfaction, in general, is a signal of fulfilment of our needs. We can eat only within a certain capacity of eating. Then we can feel joy just so much as is our measure for happiness. When we are satisfied in the fulfilment of our needs, we enjoy satisfaction, and when our need for satisfaction is fulfilled the entire circle starts yet again.





The lasting peace and happiness is acquired through a better knowledge.
Reply:By coming to terms with the ups and downs. When a down is as interesting as an up then you can have peace it is only by having a scale of bad to best that you get dissatisfied.


It is all life find the way to be okay with it however it comes.
Reply:Yes! You are right. There is a limit to satisfaction. We can not go on having sex, drinking alcohol, delicious food all the time. At one point of time, we will get boring. This is all about sensory pleasures which are momentary.





And there are mental satisfaction. When we achieve a victory or realize some thing really great, we feel mental satisfaction. But this will be lost when the time runs out.





Lets talk about spiritual satisfaction which rarely attained by few people. Some saints live without food, clothes, shelter, money, car, family or friends. But their faces reveal their satisfaction. So it implies a fact that real satisfaction is not a matter of material achievements, but the result of spiritual upliftment. If we live only for our body, we will be always unhappy. If we live for the soul, we will be happy eternally.
Reply:For human desires n wants there is no limit.No one ever satisfied with wat they got.Having satisfaction with wat u have gives u peace n happiness.We have to limit r control our desires and wants,but it is very hard process.Remember that for our wants and desires there is no limit,if one desire is satisfied another will rise never ending.
Reply:Try sitting down and shutting up.
Reply:If you can accept the fact that as humans we die, then you may think of something.








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Reply:Keep your heart open to get ever lasting peace,happiness and joy, your limit, of satisfaction will also increase to infinity.





Wish you an Excellent, Happy, Joyful, Peaceful Life.


Prince
Reply:First things first: become a Buddhist. They have many good ideas about ending the problems caused by desiring. Find a good book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; he's written a few.
Reply:comparison, greed, pride, want are the basic reasons to the limit of satisfaction...............................


if u r perfectly satisfied then u r a god 4 me.........................cause i feel no 1 is perfect....................infact the nature prooves that nothing is perfect.....................the assumtion of perfection is hypothetical........................eg- no ideal gas exists, no person uses 100persent of his brain.................i feel u can never achieve a lasting happiness or peace cause u as i m is imperfect.
Reply:everyone is different... what 1 considers to be satisfaction is different to another. Its about finding what works for you!
Reply:my simple answer is : i think , it's can be compares with : why can't we had a sex-intercourse to comes to it's climax according to till our thought could be the time of our satisfaction is , but , loll , it's come to it's climax according to it's-self , not according to ours , loll , whyyy did it's , as we just thoughts , that , we just start to get excited.loll. WHYYY. EDITED : then , after all that's sex-things , it's had becoming to be our COOKINGS ---%26gt;%26gt; CHILDRENS. Nahhh.loll , whose wanted whose then in SATISFACTIONS.