"the more directly one aims to maximize pleasure and avoid pain, the more likely one is to produce a life bereft of depth, meaning, and community."quoted Ortberg (see previous post)
...which sounds a lot like CS Lewis view of joy:
Only when your whole attention is fixed on something else...does the "thrill" arise...It's very existence presupposes that you desire not it but something other and outer.Suprised by Joy, p.136
