Ask Alexa - What's the difference between pleasure, happiness, joy, and bliss?

Alexa: What is the difference between pleasure, happiness, joy, and bliss?

Pleasure is scratching an itch, happiness is getting your desires fulfilled, joy is an abiding sense of well being, and bliss is being in a flow state where a person experiences a oneness with the universe.

Alexa: Did you hear how the orthodonist charged his patients?

Yes, he did not charge for every single service, but requested his patients plunk down money for a retainer.