One of my favorite reasons to meditate from Yuval Noah Harari

"The problem is that at a very deep level, the reaction of the human mind to pleasure isn't satisfaction, it's craving for more. And so, even if you create extremely pleasant worlds, people will just want more and more...Like addiction to drugs, you need larger and larger doses of this pleasant mental experience just to feel okay.

For me, the real key to happiness is to know the truth about yourself and about the world. I think if you really know the truth, not as a story and not as a theory, but *through direct realization*, then that's really a firm basis for happiness. And, you are unlikely to get that by pursuing ever more pleasant experiences.

It's the truth of the nature of the mind itself and the truth that all these experiences, feelings, and sensations are really just ephemeral vibrations, they have no deep meaning. And this is why they can't give you any lasting satisfaction. If you get, for a moment, some pleasant feeling, it immediately disappears, and you need to grasp the next. It never lasts. And this is the essential nature of all these experiences, feelings, and sensations. I think only once you begin to realize that, you have a real chance of understanding yourself and being really satisfied. Because otherwise you just continue to think, "Oh, I'm missing this particular feeling, I'm missing this particular experience, this is why I'm not satisfied, if I only had it, then finally I'll be satisfied", and there is no such thing. And that's a very hard lesson to learn.

If you really want to explore reality and you try to only explore the pleasant aspects, you are not really exploring reality, you're just running away from something."

- Yuval Noah Harari on Making Sense with Sam Harris #68 - Reality and the Imagination