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Joy: Expanding Human Awareness by William C. Schutz,
Shannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave th... See more
Maria Popova • Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow ourselves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self felt like a thankful death itself, a disappearance, a giving away, overheard in the laughter of friendship, the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as
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Miroslav Volf est professeur à Yale et il s’est fait une spécialité de l’étude de la joie. D’après lui, la joie n’est pas une émotion autonome. C’est le couronnement d’une vie bien vécue. « La joie n’est pas simplement extérieure à la bonne vie, comme la feuille de menthe sur la chantilly d’un gâteau. En vérité, c’est la bonne vie qui s’exprime et
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