The Human Capacity to Experience Joy

We are the luckiest creatures on the planet.  Somewhere along human evolution, we were given the greatest gift: the experience of joy.  I believe your joy, happiness, bliss, pleasure, whatever you may call it, is the ultimate reason you live.  If life is just a constant struggle full of unhappiness and negativity, why bother?  Certainly humans go through bouts of struggle and sadness, but the pendulum will swing back again.  Seek the brighter side in life; it is there for you.

To attain pure joy, I believe humans must remove the ego, live in the present moment and define their values and dreams.  Humans must learn how to balance their lives, to decrease the swing of the pendulum, bringing the self into a more stable and trusting environment. And, most importantly, humans need one another.  Humans need to be in the presence of people that they love and people that love them on a regular basis.  As I gather the wisdom of living, I realize how vital this is in order to attain the ultimate objective: joy.

Living with a loving partner or your child, living near family or within a strongly bonded community will give you a sense of being home, a sense of peace, a sense of comfort, and, in short, a true experience of joy.  Open yourself to as many people as you can that give you love and support and you can love and support in return.

In the end of living, everything else fades, but your bliss will never leave you.  Pure joy creates the soul.

"Joy," Karl Jensen

"Moksha is a final release from one's worldly conception of self, the loosening of the shackle of experiential duality and a realization of one's own fundamental nature which is true being, pure consciousness and bliss, an experience which is ineffable and beyond sensation."

"If you build it, they will come."