1 result for (book:ecs3 AND heading:"esp class session march 2 1971" AND stemmed:joy)
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
Now you have said something and you can let out your joy in this room in class and also, your great fears. Blessed are they who realize what they say, for they shall say more.
[... 19 paragraphs ...]
Now, this point is within you at this moment and each moment and it is a point of feeling and awareness. Consciousness poised between exquisite points of imbalance. A knowledge that sings above nonexistence. A joy beyond all concept and its threshold is your own feeling. You must learn, therefore, to accept the feeling of any moment. To cut down the barriers, not between yourselves and others, so much as the barriers that you have set up against yourselves. To recognize within yourself the power that exists within you at any given moment of your time, and do not look away from it. To examine one instant of your feelings clearly, to some extent, is to realize what truth is and the truth is emotional.
[... 23 paragraphs ...]
(Beginning of sentence lost) ... as if only anger were involved or negative feelings. But all of you, when you think of feelings in that context, you think of negative feelings that are being repressed. You do not realize that you are often out of touch with your own feelings of joy and spontaneity.
Now I have said this before so it is nothing new, but when you get in the habit of getting out of touch with one feeling, then you inhibit all feelings to some extent. You cannot, therefore, be joyful.
[... 25 paragraphs ...]
I bid you all a hearty and an emotional and joyful and a loud and a spontaneous good evening.
[... 1 paragraph ...]