Don't postpone joy
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Don't postpone joy
Don’t wait for joy to find you, because you might end up waiting forever.
Poet Mary Oliver on allowing yourself to be happy and full:
“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty.
Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty.
Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Allowing Yourself to Be Happy and Full, and How Small Errors Compound | James Clear
I have a full life. A privileged life. An unendangered life. But sometimes the simple joys escape me. Joy is not always a feeling that is freely bestowed upon us, often it is something we must actively seek. In a way, joy is a decision, an action, even a practised method of being. It is an earned thing brought into focus by what we have lost — at l... See more
Maria Popova • Audubon on other minds and the secret knowledge of animals, the paradox of joy with Nick Cave and Lisel Mueller, how Dostoyevsky became a writer
today we posted an essay on culture vulture by Emma Kumagaya all about JOY and how it’s not made to be a crumb!!!!!! it’s inspired by this poem and you can go and read it in our stories!!! xx
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Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
To choose joy is to see all existence as a gift, which is why the practice of joy is inseparable from the practice of gratitude. Gratitude gives birth to joy because gratitude teaches us to receive life as a gift in the moment we’re in, regardless of what lies ahead. “It is the truly converted life in which God has become the center of all,”