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In my opinion, the most irrational thing you can do is ignore the intuition
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
Then why don't I experience this happiness? Why am I miserable or dissatisfied much of the time? The desires in my mind for objects veil this happiness. In moments when I am peaceful, I experience joy within myself.
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
Sometimes the feeling of the presence of The Lord overwhelms me and I am feel peace and joy and love of all beings that is not possible to describe in words even by someone who writes as much as I do.
Yes, today, more than ever before, how can I make my vision clearer and my contribution more valuable as I receive today's massive beauty, wonder and joy in my life?
Living life without self-courtship has a high cost. We risk losing our sensuality, our senses, precious moments with those we love, our smile, and our joy. When we romance ourselves, it prepares a fertile garden for a profusion of love to bloom in all areas of our lives. We regain passion and now becomes a moment not to be missed!
A Prayer:
May the clarity of my vision and the value of my contribution be ever more worthy of the massive beauty, wonder and joy I receive every day.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
In pain, we learned the value of joy -- in falling down, we learned the value of standing -- and in trust, we will learn the value of a plan larger than our own.
We can see three kinds of rocks for us to step on as we cross each day's fast-flowing mountain stream of Life -- and, we are safest when we recognize them, step forward and do not hesitate -- their names are Joy, Spiritual Connection, and Obstacles.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Through the progress of natural science the totality of the world and our oneness with it becomes clearer to our spirit. When this realization of the complete unity is not only an intellectual realization, when it opens up our whole being to the light of total consciousness, then it becomes a radiant joy, an all encompassing love.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
You have yellow walls - so have I; yellow is the color of joy.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
I am a Swede and - shudder - a Socialist. I want to be useful and I want to give joy - but not only to one person, but to everybody.
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
We all have great untapped potential for self-healing. Our bodies are infinitely wise and want to be well. Our hearts want to express the boundless compassion and joy that is our true identity.
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
