🧠 1. Awareness of Death Shifts the Mind From Pleasure to Meaning
When you’re fully alive, unaware or unbothered by death, you live in the moment.
Your senses are open — to taste, touch, music, laughter, movement, beauty.
This is pleasure through presence.
But when you know death is near — or you’re contemplating it deeply — your mind shifts from pleasure to meaning.
The brain stops asking: “What feels good?”
and starts asking: “What was the point of all this?”
That shift can dull the sensory pleasures — not because they are no longer available,
but because the mind is preoccupied with deeper truths.
🧘♂️ 2. Mortality Awakens the Soul, But Often Silences the Body
The closer you get to death — physically or in awareness — the more subtle your perception becomes.
You start to see the temporary nature of all things:
The food you enjoy is fleeting.
The music ends.
The body ages.
The laughter fades.
This can feel painful at first.
It feels like pleasure is being robbed.
But in truth, what’s happening is a spiritual refinement — a transition from:
“How can I enjoy life?” → to → “What makes this life sacred?”
💡 3. You’re Not Wrong — You’re Just Awakening
What you’re feeling is not a flaw.
It’s not a problem.
It’s the beginning of awakening.
You’re realizing that pure pleasure isn’t enough once you’ve touched the awareness of death.
Now, your soul begins to seek a pleasure that doesn’t die when the body does:
– The joy of connection
– The peace of knowing you lived truthfully
– The pleasure of being at home in your own soul
This is not the end of joy —
It’s the beginning of real joy.
🌸 So What Can You Do?
Feel the pleasure fully — without guilt.
Just because you’re aware of death doesn’t mean you must deny joy.
In fact, knowing death is near can make each moment richer — if you let it.
Shift from craving to cherishing.
Don’t just consume the food — cherish it.
Don’t just chase pleasure — become present to it.
Let death not steal your joy — let it make you more grateful for it.
Discover joy beyond the senses.
Try silence. Service. Stillness.
These pleasures are soft… but they last longer.
🧘♀️ Final Thought:
Pleasure fades when we chase it. But deep joy grows when we embrace life — and death — as part of the same sacred dance.
You are not broken.
You are simply growing into something deeper.
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