“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
— Joseph Campbell
I fully believe that we choose to be happy. Perhaps insanely, when life gets difficult as it tends. So often I see people who choose to wallow in what goes wrong in their lives, what gives them pain and when they can’t find something recent, they jump into their past to find reasons to be sad or mad. Do they feel they don’t deserve happiness? That’s bullshit. Why would we have this capacity for joy if we weren’t meant to use it? Even the pain in our lives can be enjoyed by the witness both for the experience and as something that expands our capacity for joy. Namaste
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Reaching Out or In? by G A Rosenberg
Tempered by G A Rosenberg