Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (Compass)

JOY is a meeting place, of deep intentionality and of self-forgetting, the bodily alchemy of what lies inside us in communion with what formerly seemed outside, but is now neither, but become a living frontier, a voice speaking between us and the world:

What we call suffering is often just the differential between how life really is and how we wish it to be. A

Joyous feelings have a capacity to transform the feelings of sorrow and pain in us.

The existence is made out of joy. That is its very stuff. Joy is the stuff existence is made of. So whenever you are moving toward becoming more existential, you will become more and more full of joy, delight, for no reason at all. If you are moving into detachment, love will grow, joy will grow, only attachments will drop—because attachments bring

There was suffering that could not be controlled, that could not be submitted to the intellect’s rage to order and pacify our experience.

after another, we may discover the joy that underlies life as it is—this fleeting, ungraspable, uncontrollable life-as-it-is.