Everything in the relative is what you make of it. Something is good because you say it is. Perhaps yesterday’s weather was hot. Today it’s hotter, so now yesterday’s temperature wasn’t as hot as you had thought. In winter, 50 degrees is warm. In early autumn, 50 is cold. When bread is stale, you throw it out. When you are hungry, you ravish a crust of bread. One day you are happy, but the next day is the same, yet you are not happy.
What pleased you yesterday isn’t enough today. Your cry is “more”. You are ascending in your cry for more joy. And more joy is what you are supposed to have. And more joy is what is in store for you.
You are escalating to joy. In order to move toward joy, you have to have a sense of it. The sense of joy is your taxi to joy. Your sense of joy takes you home.
Joy is what you are supposed to have, and yet it is a gift, a most precious gift in the temporary world. You think it is easy to suffer and hard to have joy, but you have it backward. Suffering is hard, and joy is easy. That’s how it works.
Love is easy. Unless it is easy, it is not love. Striving for love is striving for love, but it is not love. Only love is love, as only joy is joy. Less than joy is not joy. It is less.
The fastest way to joy is to dispense it. That is why young children are so indispensable. They are joyful, and they give you joy, and it is your pleasure to give them joy. Whose joy is it anyway? Joy can only belong to all. It is impossible not to share joy. Kept to itself, joy is no longer joy. Joy must bubble up and resound across the universe.
You do not count joy as if only so much you are is what you will return. Joy is not countable. It is of great account, but it is not tallied. It can only be enjoyed.
Can joy be taught? It can be shared. It can only be shared. Is there a top to joy? There cannot be. Joy is infinite. You can pursue joy, and you can catch it. But, like love, you can only keep it when you give it away.
Be a peddler of joy today. Let joy be the music you sing. Let joy be the rhythm of your life. Let joy be your footfall. Let joy be in ambush for you. Let joy take you out of the doldrums. Nothing else can.
You who are infinite live in a relative world. Although the world is the expression of the infinite, it cannot live up to infinity except through your perception of it. Grouse about the world, and you will see more to grouse about. Enjoy the world, and you will find more joy in it.
Joy costs you nothing while suffering comes with a high price. Suffering is heavy, and joy is light. Why would anyone choose a heavy burden to carry?
It is all right to be happy. Happiness is not stolen. It belongs to you. Accept the gift of joy. Truly, it is your inheritance. It is also your choice. You can be oblivious to your inheritance, or you can accept it. There is no court in the land that can deny you happiness. You are the consumer of happiness and you are the expression of it. Be what you are today.