"Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." - Leo Tolstoy
Joy is the realization that you are the creator of your experience, that what you are is Joy
joy : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : delight : the expression or exhibition of such emotion : gaiety : a state of happiness or felicity : bliss : a source or cause of delight.
My View...
You are Joy - it’s only your separation from your God-Self that causes you to lose sight of that. How can you NOT be joyful when you come to the full realization that you are a miracle, that you are God with the power to create any experience of your choosing, so why not choose Joy?
You are here to BE and experience Joy and as you do you’ll bring Joy to others and the world.
As you release past wounds and shift your identification from your story to the God-Self that is truly who you are your past wounds and future worries will melt away and it will be easy to find and BE Joy in the present moment and carry it with you in all the moments to come.
My Experience...
When my Mother passed away last year (the day after Valentine’s day) you can only imagine how I felt. It was crushing and I was heart-broken. In fact in the hospital while she was dying before my eyes, she did hang in there enough to say goodbye and touch my heart in so many ways.
She was at the point where she couldn’t even talk however I could feel every word she was saying, at one point she took my arm and with her finger she wrote I LOVE YOU on my arm, I couldn’t help but to break down in tears.
Month’s before her passing and I guess in her preparation to go she time and again pointed out that joy is what it’s all about and that I should seek joy in every moment because we don’t know how long that we’ll have this experience, but you can choose to live with joy NOW she would say.
I miss my Mom but I’ll never forget her words and in her honor I choose to live with and BE Joy.
The Simple...
You are Joy - you are God experiencing the joy of the human experience as you. Let go of your story, your wounds and worries and know that you are safe, free your mind and simply BE the Joy that you are and as you do you’ll bring joy to others. Joy is what you are, you are love, you are God.
JOY - I Find Joy In Every Moment...
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