pleasures
14 subentries
- pleasures. See also recreation; self-gratification
- maturity substitutes higher meanings for (100:1.1)
- morontia world has thousands of spirit realities in counterpart to material p. (44:3.1)
- physical pleasures
- amusement madness reason for Roman decline (195:3.9)
- cannot satisfy the soul (84:8.4)
- desire for p. has superseded hunger-want (68:2.11)
- isolated and purely selfish p. are relative evil (100:3.4)
- man entitled to enjoy p. (100:2.6)
- p. mania great threat to family life (84:8.1-2)
- self-deception leads to enslaving (143:2.5)
- selfish satisfactions do not confer happiness (136:6.9)
- suicidal if they destroy property, marriage, or home (84:8.6)
- recalling past experiences provides p. (48:4.10,20)
- satisfactions of happiness (3:5.14)
Cross-references
- See also recreation
- See also self-gratification
Cited alongside
Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.
- self-gratification 11
- evil 66
- home 27
- children 57
- civilization 130
- past 5