"Each one of us is linked by all the material, organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. Not only is he caught up in a network, he is carried along, too, by a stream. All around us, in whatever direction we look, there are both links and currents."
Writings in Time of War - Pierre Teilhard deChardin
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FINDING DEEP JOY
Robert Ellwood
Shows how the quality of bliss underlies all of our experiences of life. The author suggests that joy is the fundamental reality in the universe, underlying all of our awareness.
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"We can know more of our inner subtle states of consciousness. We can think and understand. We can love those who come to us, and we can delight in deep joy. All this comes from choosing the right fork in the road."
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"The Vedanta philosophical tradition, based on the Upanishads, speaks of Brahman as 'sat-chit-ananda' – being, knowledge, bliss or joy, and this is primordial reality, the horizonless sea of which we are each a cresting wave…of the same stuff as the profoundest depths."
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"Affirm the good that is really there. This is the key to reconciling full engagement with life."
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"God is a Presence deep within."
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"Difficulties are opportunities."
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"Live in love, even among those who hate." The Dhammapada: The Sayings Of The Buddha
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"The Upanishads relate that Brahman, being-knowledge-joy, is the Atman or soul, the innermost nature of all beings, ourselves included."
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"When you suffer in mind or body, the road forks. You can go the route of feeling sorry for yourself, dwelling on your pain and the unfairness of a life which dealt you that card…or you can determine to let this experience open you to learning more about human life in all its dimensions."
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"Caring love will tell you what to do."
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"Compassion or love and joy are closely related, both articulating the unity of the universe. Love struggles for unity, joy sings out the even deeper truth that it is already there."
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"There is a deep joy in this universe which is accessible to everyone everywhere, which is everyone's birthright. It can enhance the happiest circumstances and be tapped for strength in the most adverse. It is our own true nature."
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"All the divinity, all the love, all the deep joy in the universe are already in us and all around us, nearer than hands and feet. All we need to do is awaken to them, prepare for them, clean out the channels through which they ought to flow into consciousness."
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"God is comprised as both one and infinitely many."
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"Through sharing a broad range of feelings with another, from sorrow to rapture, we KNOW the other – and in the process ourselves….And in knowing is joy. Beneath knowing is joy. For knowing KNOWS – and for us creates – the unity of the universe."
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"Brahman, though one, is all things, as a single flame takes many different shapes."
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"We are already in the Holy Spirit – now. We have only to realize it."
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"Like Jesus, become engaged with the reality of every person and every situation you encounter. You feel the person's pain, you share his or her joys, you are right with the pressures and paradoxes of every human situation."
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"Our deepest nature as a self, as well as the quintessential nature of God, is joy!"
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"In any situation, there is some good….In the most hopeless and heartless situation, even a concentration camp, some opportunity for good remains, if only, as for Betsie tenBoom [holocaust survivor], the opportunity to love and undergo a purifying ordeal."
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"The older and deeper all-pervading joy is there…even when evil or pain is being endured on the level of consciousness controlled by individualized existence. Joy is always in the revels of the atoms and molecules making up the flesh and blood of the sufferer, in the swing of the planet on which he or she stands, in the sun which gives warmth and life. It is there…and can be tapped even in the darkest suffering."
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"The universe, with everything in it, is an outward flow and a crystallized form of the unceasingly upwelling Joy of Brahman."
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"Joy is the still point at the center of the dance."
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"Compassion is simply expressing in action the interrelatedness of all life, all being."
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"Joyous unity of being is already there on a deeper level."
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"Buddhism emphasizes that the wisdom of enlightenment must always be conjoined with compassion, for if wisdom is seeing the interrelatedness of all beings, love is the ethical expression of the same truth."
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