By White Feather
The only place humans can truly find joy is within themselves; in their own hearts. Our hearts are what receive joy from our Source and what express that joy coming through us.
But we have been trained and conditioned to always seek joy outside of ourselves. We have been brainwashed to believe that joy comes from our accomplishments, our friends, our family, our lovers, our societal status, our bank accounts, our egoic legacy, emotional gratification received from others, our place in societal hierarchy, the number of followers we have on social media, how much we beat others in competition, and how much we feel we are being loved by others.
While small bits of joy can be found outside of ourselves, that joy is merely a reflection of the joy being felt within us; being expressed through us.
If we are not feeling true joy then we blame the world outside of us. Why are we not receiving the joy we want?
Joy is not something we passively receive or something to strive for and attain. It is something we actively express as it comes through us from experiencing life. Life is joy. Our every heartbeat is filled with joy if we can feel it and are not looking outside of our heart for it.
A deficiency of joy is a result of looking for it outside of ourselves. Life presents us with a bottomless pit of joy that resides within us. It resides in our heart; a conduit for that joy. No one is responsible for our joy except for ourselves. No one.
We are not victims even though we have been told that we are. We simply have not taken responsibility for our own joy. We look toward others to provide us with joy. We spend our lives searching for joy outside of us when there is an infinite supply of it flowing through us. The door to that joy is in our heart. When we open that door our lives reflect that joy.
We can discover that the source of all joy is life itself. When we discover that joy we find that it is everywhere we look. We realize that there is no separation between the joy in our heart and all life around us. It is all one. It is life.
Our lives and our hearts may seem like only a teeny tiny microscopic speck in the infinite Cosmos. But when we open that door we realize that we are the Cosmos.
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