If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
Happiness is within. Joy is within. Love is within. The kingdom of heaven is within. But we are searching outside.
People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable.
The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance. Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice. Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness. Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter. Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
The healthiest response to life is joy.
Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.
The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.
Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
With every minute, every breath, every atom of our bodies, we should repeat this mantra: “dedication, dedication, giving, giving, loving, loving.” That is the best yoga which will bring us permanent peace and joy.
We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought 'I am' is the polishing cloth. Use it.
Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much-needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'