J Quotes
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“joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms”
Source: When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
“Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.”
“Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)”
“Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.”
Source: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God
“Joy is not something you get, joy is not something that stays, joy is something that you keep doing.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply.”
“Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.”
“Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.”
“Joy is not the satisfied contemplation of an accomplished result, the emotion of victory, the satisfaction of having succeeded. It is the sign of an energy that is deftly deployed, it is a free affirmation: everything comes easy. Joy is an activity: executing with ease something difficult that has taken time to master, asserting the faculties of the mind and the body. Joys of thought when it finds and discovers, joys of the body when it achieves without effort. That is why joy, unlike pleasure, increases with repetition, and is enriched. When you are walking, joy is a basso continuo. Locally, of course, you may run into effort and difficulty. You will also find immediate moments of contentment: a proud gaze backwards to contemplate the long steep plunge of the slope behind you. Those satisfactions, though, too often present an opportunity to reintroduce quantities, scores, figures (which track? how long? what altitude?). And walking becomes a competition. That is why expeditions in high mountain country (conquering peaks, each one a challenge) are always slightly impure: because they give rise to narcissistic gratification. What dominates in walking, away from ostentation and showing off, is the simple joy of feeling your body in the most primitively natural activity.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.”
“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.”
“joy is one’s fuel.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“Joy is our natural state of being. We should be happy. If we are not happy, something is wrong.”
“Joy is our ultimate truth. Joy comes from the roots of our being. It comes from our deepest core. Everything else is on the periphery, on the circumference.
Joy is really the search for our own being. it is the search for knowing oneself. It is the search to discover one's true nature.The moment we know who we are, joy happens. And the moment we are joyful, we know who we are.
Joy is the taste of our being. If we do not find our joy, only we are responsible. We are not searching, we are not interested. We do not have the commitment to go into the depth of ourselves. When one is ready to go into the depth of ourselves, a new joy happens.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.”
“Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.”
“Joy is possible when you dissolve into silence. It is like a drop which dissolves into the ocean. When you are ready to dissolve into the whole, joy happens.If you resist to dissolve, if you try to remain a separate entity, we protect ourselves.That is what everybody is doing. They try to be an ego, they try to protect
themselves. They defend themselves against the whole. Everybody is afraid against the whole, because the whole is vast.
Many years ago, a spiritual teacher, who has counseled thousands of people, told me:
“You will dissolve into the silence. All the earlier enlightened Masters and all the small
Deva’s are just here to help you to get
enlightened.”
The whole surrounds you from all sides. The whole surrounds you from the
inside and from the outside. The whole is like the wind, which invisible and exists everywhere. We are not separate. We are part of the whole. Dissolve into the whole, drop the ego. Fel yourself as part of the
whole. Slowly the experience of being part of the whole deepens.
One day it becomes your truth, your being, your reality. Then you have arrived home. When you live the whole and forget yourself as a separate entity, each moment becomes a joy.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.”
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.”
“Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives.”
Source: Braving the Wilderness
“Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the
passionate pursuit of something other than
happiness.”
“Joy is rooted in gratitude. You cannot have a joyful heart without having a grateful heart.”
Source: Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
“Joy is sacred blessing.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.”
Source: Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self
“Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”
“Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.”
“Joy is strength.”
“Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.”
Source: My Life for the Poor
“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”
Source: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.”
Source: Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day (Large Print 16pt)
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.”
“Joy is the barometer of the soul.”
Source: 21 Gifts: Your Inner Child’s Guide to Activate the Law of Attraction for Happiness and Success
“Joy is the best companion,
virtue is the noblest acquaintance,
wisdom is cleverest friend,
and love is the kindest soulmate.
Humility is the best companion,
gratitude is the noblest acquaintance,
intelligence is cleverest friend,
and patience is the kindest soulmate.
Laughter is the best companion,
contentment is the noblest acquaintance,
silence is cleverest friend,
and goodness is the kindest soulmate.
Tolerance is the best companion,
equality is the noblest acquaintance,
discernment is cleverest friend,
and compassion is the kindest soulmate.
Freedom is the best companion,
harmony is the noblest acquaintance,
prudence is cleverest friend,
and peace is the kindest soulmate.
Truth is the best companion,
discipline is the noblest acquaintance,
intellect is cleverest friend,
and honor is the kindest soulmate.
Knowledge is the best companion,
understanding is the noblest acquaintance,
intuition is cleverest friend,
and reason is the kindest soulmate.
Faith is the best companion,
expectation is the noblest acquaintance,
caution is cleverest friend,
and God is the kindest soulmate.”
“Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.”
“Joy is the best makeup.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.”
“Joy is the best of wine.”
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
“Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.”
Source: The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul
“Joy is the echo of God's life within us.”
“Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.”
“Joy is the enhancement of happiness through knowledge. We as booksellers have more of an opportunity to spread that joy through the books we present and those we find meaningful.”
Source: Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
“Joy is the evidence of inner growth.”
“Joy is the fountain of youth.”
“Joy is the fragrance of meditation. Meditation means becoming more silent. Joy is possible only if we become silent. All that is needed to become silent is awareness.
When we become aware and can watch, we find the music of silence.We can watch whatever is happening inside, and the moment it evaporates we are left with a deep silence. Then we have gone beyond, and we have reached beyond time. Then we realize our immortality.
Religions have not been able to create a synthesis between silence and joy. They have failed in creating the whole man, because a man can be silent but if he is not joyful his silence becomes cold.
Society prefers cold silence, because then you are not a trouble to anyone. Society does not want you to be alive. Society wants you to be an efficient machine. Society is more interested in mechanical efficiency than in human growth. Therefore society goes on preaching to people to be silent and obedient. Then people lose their freedom, intelligence, joy, truth, love and courage.He loses his whole being to become a convenient cog in the wheel of society. The more powerful the society, the establishment, the media, the vested interests and the rich becomes, the more they become a threat to humanity and the more people will become enslaved.
The seeker of truth has to create a synthesis, where inner silence and outer joy is developed. Then your being is rooted in wholeness. To know it is to know God. To know it is to know all.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace