Pleasure is not the Answer to be More Conscious - (3923)

We may instinctively think it will help us be more conscious, or solve things, or make us feel better, but we are not right in thinking that.

Only like draws like. To be more conscious we need the consciousness. 

There is no point in going into eating, sleeping, drinking, shopping, music dreaming and other ways of dreaming, video games, TV, movies, internet, YouTube etc. because they all push our consciousness further away, and we can't get the light and force we so desperately need. 

When a person has vices, they tend to turn to these for help. But they are not good helpers at all. When we have little vices we become passive to the consciousness which is not much of a help. We have to make ourselves active to the consciousness, open to it to make the right conditions for it to appear in us.

End (3923).