"Negative experiences can lead to joy and understanding. Life is untidy. When we reject this messiness—and in so doing reject life—we risk perceiving the world through the lens of our economics or our sciences.

But if we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace it, experience it, and ultimately live with it, there is a chance for a spiritual life filled not only with pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity."

- Derrick Jensen
From A Language Older Than Words

"Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.

This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness."

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
From The Art of Loving

"Within your beings, always simply remember, if you follow no other truth, follow the truth that within your being is called joy. If you follow that, you're always going to be right where you need to be, and you will always have life within your being...When you are faced with something that gives you fear, realize that fear is of man's mind, not God's mind."

- Sheradon Bryce
From Joy Riding the Universe, Volume 1

From Achieve! 60-Second Nuggets of Inspiration
Pathways to Joy, December 13, 2007, Issue #443

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