How is a thought tied to so much that we own and so much meaning that we take on? Is it that we are simply what we think? Are we that simple or is it deeper than simple reflection?
If we think about something it affects us...meaning how we feel. If we feel something then it will change our perception. Our behaviour is challenged and changed by what we feel as well as what we think. So if we think something then it can change how we feel as well as how we behave.
So...what we think...really...is who we are. If one simply concentrates on ideas and opinions....perceptions and points of view...we will begin to see who we are...because who we are is in what we think.
Unfortunately...most of us do not live by this understanding and are not careful with our thoughts. We allow negativity, suspicion, stress, frustration, resentment, and immaturity to rule our minds. The person that we hurt the most in doing this is ourselves. Can we truly be honest and respectful in our lives if we allow these negative and destructive paths to lead us?
I truly believe that we need to focus on the things that bring us to our joy.
The problem for many is...they do not even know what their joy...even is. So the question is...how do you discover your joy? If you already know what your joy is...then the quest is how do you participate in your joy? What will it take for you to be happy?
This is a good question because we quite often approach our lives with a get-me-by attitude. But searching for your joy and focusing on being happy are not easy things to do. Attaining the balance needed to be truly happy is a great deal of work and therefore not easy...but it is worth it...because ultimately...balance...is the best way to finding peace...and finding peace...inside oneself....finding balance...is about finding one's joy.
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We have come full circle in this course of discourse.
The destructiveness of knowledge in relationships is more evident to you now? Or, have you not realized what you have exposed. The demand to be safe (have an anchor) in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. Seeking security is inviting insecurity. Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? Love? The word is so weighed down and corrupted that I hardly like to use it. Everybody talks of love - every magazine and newspaper and every follower talks everlastingly of love. I love my country, I love my king, I love some book, I love that mountain, I love pleasure, I love my wife, I love God. Is Joy an idea?
If it is, Joy can be cultivated, nourished, cherished, pushed around, twisted in any way you like… in all this there must always be anxiety, fear, jealousy, guilt, and so long as there is fear there is no joy; a mind ridden with sorrow will never know what joy is; sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with joy. And so has nothing to do with pleasure and desire.
To suggest that someone or anyone does not know joy ... that they have lost an understanding of it. That type of talk is an absolute deception. This deception is furthered with ideals and ideologies of what it should or should not be. To divide anything into what should be and what is; is the most deceptive way of dealing with life.
You may read this awestruck and repelled, but actually to go beyond thought and time - which means going beyond sorrow - is to be aware that there is a different dimension called joy. But you don\\\\\\\'t know how to come to this extraordinary fount - so what do you do? If you don\\\\\\\'t know what to do, you do nothing, don\\\\\\\'t you? Absolutely nothing. Then inwardly you are completely silent. Do you understand what that means? It means that you are not seeking, not wanting, not pursuing; there is no centre at all. Then there is joy.
AnonYmouse
KIm, I couldnt agree more, and balance is indeed the key. Controlling ones thoughts and not replayig the negative "records" is difficult, but always rewarding.
Mouse, I couldnt agree less.
Gina - Did you want to spit too?
Babe - I "L-O-V-E" you :) in every sense of the word - and most importantly - as a verb.
G, thank you, for approving in the least. Finally, making democratic judgment/criticism a reality.
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