1 result for (book:ecs4 AND heading:"esp class session august 3 1971" AND stemmed:joy)
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Margie
Wally
joy
class
strangers
[... 19 paragraphs ...]
(To Bette.) Now to our friend over here who should understand the reason for the question. Now if there is any discipline that I would tell you to adapt, it would be the discipline of joy which is spontaneous and from which, initially, all creativity comes. Within yourselves you understand the meaning of the word joy, then you will find no contradiction. Sorrow of itself can be negative or positive according to the reasons why you entertain it. Detachment can be negative or positive according to the reasons that you adapt it. Joy, faithfully followed, can lead you to the inner vitality that dwells within yourself and, hence, to All That Is.
If you understood and felt the joy within your own being, you would have no need of questions. You would know without words. If you would allow yourselves the freedom to meet, not some great teacher, not to run from teacher to teacher, but if you could meet the vitality within one cell, even one molecule of your body, you would have no need for questions.
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
No one can order you to feel joy. You cannot order yourselves to feel joy. It requires freedom. You can release yourselves to the sensation of joy and then follow it. I saw the yawn, and in the yawn there is joy. The yawn is a spontaneous expression of the body and within that there is joy.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
I bid you then a fond good evening, and I wish you this time an active joy.
