There is pleasure and there is pain. That is it. Pleasure pascifies and makes you passive. Pain mobilizes you and makes you productive. We in the west enjoy external motivation in increasing degrees - like a heroin addict - because we enjoy more and more our "relaxation". We become less spiritual. When we relax, people are suffering from pain overload / confusion down there. And that is not it, we are burning down our life foundation and we a drowsy ignorant about it.