Joy

Life does its best to show you how to live it, but people most often are too busy doing other things. Joy is not the pursuit of happiness. It’s the recognition of love. If you pursue happiness, you will not know joy. Joy isn’t something you can have. It’s something that you live.

You experience joy to the degree that you are on the path of your heart. The person who experiences joy is at home no matter what they are doing or where they are at. It’s never farther away than this moment. It’s never farther away then stopping for just a moment and remembering to breath.

“Joy is not in things; it is in us” Richard Wagner (German dramatic Composer and theorist, 1813-1883)

“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 (American prolific Author, Editor, Philosopher and Teacher, 1904-1987)