I'm Here For the Joy
“From the depths of my sorrow please reveal a place where I might serve someone who needs me.”
Shawn Askinosie • Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
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 I hand my life to the mystery and say listen - I am filled with fear but I am also filled with a deep knowing that you haven’t let me down yet.”
Seth Werkheiser • It's time to do whatever we want
Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it beco... See more
Maria Popova • Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings
Stuart Evans added
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.” He adds, “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” Indeed, on the other side of our sorrow lives our joy.
Shawn Askinosie • Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
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.”