The point to my life is my growth or strengthening, and this lies not merely in expanding, but in ascending. Power is transition to a higher level, a self-overcoming. The agent in pursuit of power does not seek achievements, so to speak, but achieving. He who will's power must not destroy what he has created or hate what he loved. His will to power soon induces him to find any given creative achievement no longer satisfying. Joy is only a symptom of the feeling that increases when resistance is overcome. One does not repudiate suffering as man desires it even though he may repudiate its meaning. Nietzsche frames this problem in the following passage: Man seeks out suffering because he