Power and pleasure do not go together 

The more power one seeks, the less pleasure he experiences. 

This may sound strange, but it is true. The feeling of power over others and pleasure are opposites. Why do so many people strive to gain power over others? Don’t they expect to find pleasure in it? They do, but they are unaware of this simple truth. They are under a great delusion. 
Power over others places us in a “war state”, a mode of struggle, control, dominance, and caution. Pleasure, on the other hand, is linked to openness, surrender, relaxation, and trust. You cannot be open and combative at the same time, nor relaxed and cautious, nor controlling and surrendered. Power is the antithesis of pleasure. People who seek power over others may temporarily satisfy their egos, their narcissism, vanity, and complexes… but their bodies cannot keep pace with the pleasure of their egos. And there is no real pleasure if it is not accompanied by physical satisfaction. Such “pleasure” that exists only “in the head” is deception, an illusion of satisfaction, “the colorful lie of our narcissism.” 
Due to this lack of real satisfaction, those who have achieved a certain level of power over others strive for even greater power. They think they don’t feel pleasure because they haven’t achieved enough power. The more they have, the less satisfied they feel, so they seek even greater power, instead of understanding this simple truth: power over others and pleasure do not go together. Power over others is for fools who have renounced true satisfaction and fulfillment in life, which can only arise from mutual love and creativity. Everything else is just colorful lies. 

Rejecting this simple truth often leads power seekers to attempt to extract pleasure from life, seeking it in various orgiastic experiences, extreme sensory experiences, “indulgence” in various ways, or substances that artificially produce “pleasure.” When this doesn’t succeed, they look for even stronger sensations to revive their numb bodies, incapable of experiencing true satisfaction. Indulgence is a desperate attempt to escape the simple truth that real satisfaction can only be found in love and creative work, in mutuality with others. All other human attempts to achieve a state of fulfillment are misguided. They are attempts to “steal emotions,” efforts to feel fulfillment and genuine, satisfying pleasure through illegitimate means, by exploiting others. Human nature does not allow this. Thieves remain unfulfilled, unaccomplished… miserable, no matter how powerful they may be. Life, in this sense, is cruelly fair. Fulfillment cannot be bought, stolen, seized, or obtained through connections, bribery, or corruption… No amount of power over others can bring you fulfillment. On the contrary, it can take it away.  The only way to achieve the satisfaction of fulfillment is through reaching a mode of creation alongside a mode of love. These two modes together are not about power over others, but rather about serving others, as well as oneself. The pleasure of fulfillment only accompanies these modes.