There are many ways one can appreciate BEAUTY. To each individual, there will be a multitude of things (or people, or candies, or flowers) that they find “beautiful”. Each of us has our own sense of beauty. Everyone’s soul is affected by something different. I find that music is one […]
Project: JOY
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There are many days that I get out of bed and just SIT in front of the computer staring at Facebook. Since I’m not a big TV fan, I tend to keep up with friends and get most of my news there. I don’t really see myself as an addict, […]
I have found that actually TAKING the time to meditate and actually DOING it are two completely separate issues. I have also discovered that hanging onto the JOY that comes with a 20-minute mind exercise is not only fleeting, but difficult to retrieve once you’ve allowed it to slip away. […]
Well, I did it. I can’t say it was earth shattering, or a revelation, or even a minor hiccup in the cosmic makeup of all things important – but I did it. With help. I’m in NO way going to claim responsibility for having the wherewithal to have come up […]
Yet again, daily life has interrupted my personal journey. I am the first one to admit that I tend to put EVERYTHING else ahead of my own personal progress. I like to read quite a bit, and I do find that I tend to get reading, follow a link here […]
Well, you can’t say that I didn’t try to obtain formal permission to blog about The Joy Within (Joan Goldstein & Manuela Soares ISBN 0-13-511338-5). I posted a request in the forums at the Simon and Schuster website, and when that attracted nothing, I found the “contact us” form on […]
In my last post, I expounded on the virtues of being happy. To dissect this topic a little further, I’ve decided to delve into the practice of finding JOY. The Cambridge Online Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/joy_1 defines JOY as follows: Definition joy noun ( HAPPINESS ) [U] great happiness They were filled […]