As it was in Dante's 'Inferno', you may first walk through hell to find your joy. But you may very well never emerge from hell.
Buddhists and meditators contemplate all around you, all using the tremendous power given to them as divine beings to seek only answers that favor them. The devil in the abyss now hidden by the curtain of the "universe". Laws of attraction. Manifesting. A divine mind that can no longer surrender.
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste", states your intellect, telling you to think what is most acceptable. Telling you that, with your superior intellect, you can easily get comfortable with any horrors you are willing to encounter.
All the horrors you are willing to encounter don't look so bad after you ignore them long enough.