Excerpt: an alternate and safe pleasure

 You find that a sense of ease and wellbeing with the breath can do a lot more for you than any amount of status, material gain, praise, outside pleasures—any of the ways of the world. A sense of ease and well-being that come from within: This is really all you need because it fully nourishes the mind right now.

Excerpt from https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/less-more/ by Thanissaro Bhikkhu AKA Ajahn Geoff