From a character in one of Gogol's stories...

"Gentlemen, this world of ours is a bore!"

[Why did I post that? Now I have to post the caveat: Remember the old Chinese saying (they would know) about being careful about wanting to live in 'interesting' times...

Probably the world is not a bore if you have some 'game' in the world of sex. I'll use that sport's term. Though the illusion turns bad pretty quick.

Perhaps being involved in some enterprise where your interest and skills and other abilities and passions are able to be fully engaged makes the world for you not a bore.

Part of the reason that the Gogol character is saying that this world of ours is a bore, though, is because the illusion of sex wears badly and hits limits, and because it's difficult to be involved in something where you are able to be fully engaged with enthusiasm mentally and emotionally and physically (fate, circumstance, providence, time, i.e. not knowing what interests you until you are stuck in some life pattern that makes it difficult to follow your interests), energy, etc.

A host of positive thinking speakers will say "That is the thing! You must make the circumstances and achieve the possibilities for yourself!!"

Yet think of this as well: education (real gaining of understanding) tends to reduce the possibilities or reduce the field for things to interest us. I wrote that awkwardly, but you get the gist. For instance: you can't write a bestseller if you are above the level of the content of the bestseller (and they by definition are shallow works). You just can't. You have to be stupid to write a bestseller, and exceptions to that rule are miniscule. Another example: you can't be a great athlete if you develop to the point where the pursuit of winning a competition seems stupid to you even if just a little bit.

Disciplined, orthodox (small 'o') mysticism is there for us bored, worldly 'failures.']

OK, call me a loser-whiner!