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| Joy arises from the happy heart |
Many believe that Joy is an Emotion, in fact the dictionary defines it as such. They try to convince us that Joy is an instinctive Emotion that arises spontaneously in our lives, as if it were a lottery prize. The dictionary also says that Joy gives us strength and energy to create happily.
How wrong they are...
...Joy, in principle, is not an Emotion that makes us Happy but rather a symptom of Happiness. Of course, as usual, those who think they are intellectuals define "things" but without saying how they arise, how they are created or where they come from.
The second is to clarify that Joy is not an instinctive Emotion that by chance arises in the human being but a Feeling that arises from the Happy Heart.
Joy without Happiness does not exist, so the position of the dictionary that says that Joy gives us happiness-creating energy is wrong. On the contrary, a happy person is full of joyful creative energy.
But what is Happiness? Happiness is the state in which a being finds himself when he can manifest without limits the Love that he carries in his Heart. If Joy comes from the Heart, it is a Feeling and it is a Virtue, since all Virtues come from the Heart, they come from Love.
Joy is then the physical manifestation of Happiness, it is like God smiles through our eyes. It is clear that this feeling fills us with Vigor and Strength and then we create in a positive way, that is, with Joy.
The Happy person is the one who overflows his heart with Love, his Joy the proof that God exists.
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| Joy is the "proof" that God exists |
Joy is the Happiness that others see in our eyes, it cannot be hidden. It is the Gift and Prize that God gives to people with a Good Heart and it is not expired or perishable, it lasts as long as Love lasts and if Love lasts forever, Happiness and Joy always last.
Happiness, make no mistake, is not doing "the Indian", doing the "toti", doing the "clown" or the "ju ju ha ha" Almost always the people who need to do the "ju ju ha ha" express only its falsehood, its disguised sadness. The "joy" that comes from alcohol, drugs or any situation outside of us is not True Joy because it does not come from within, but rather is a mask that hides our sadness (the opposite of Joy) or a form of evasion of our sorrows
Yes, grief is unhappiness, the opposite of Happiness, and sadness is the opposite of Joy.
As we saw previously, Joy flows from our Happy Heart, it does not depend on external circumstances and it is not perishable or expires.
Joy is what others see in us when we are Happy. When we live with Love, it flows spontaneously in every situation and moment, it is God's Gift and Prize to Good-hearted Human Beings and it lasts Eternally.
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