Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within... The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within... The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain." in the context of "Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.