„This is not the discontent that leads to the joy of the kingdom.“
Anthony de Mello3
1931 - 1987Citações relacionadas
„Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.“
— Siddharth Katragadda Indian writer 1972
page 35
„You practice so you can invent. Discipline? No. The joy of practicing leads you to the celebration of the creation.“
— Cecil Taylor American pianist and poet 1929
Soure: Films on Demand, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Films Media Group, & MVD Entertainment Group. (2011). Cecil Taylor All the Notes. New York, N.Y.: Films Media Group.
„I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter.“
— Christopher Reeve actor, director, producer, screenwriter 1952 - 2004
„The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.“
— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987
Context: If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared the guilt and anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead. The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
„Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland“
— Bernard of Clairvaux French abbot, theologian 1090 - 1153
Context: Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
From, On Loving of God, Paul Halsall trans., Ch. 3
„The human heart desires joy. We all desire joy, every family, every people aspires to happiness. But what is the joy that the Christian is called to live out and bear witness to? It is the joy that comes from the closeness of God, from his presence in our life. From the moment Jesus entered into history, with his birth in Bethlehem, humanity received the seed of the Kingdom of God, like the soil receives the seed, the promise of a future harvest.“
— Papa Francesco 266th Pope of the Catholic Church 1936
"Angelus", in Saint Peter's Square (14 December 2014) http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2014/documents/papa-francesco_angelus_20141214.html
„But in our ignorance we emotionalise joy, beauty and love. We make feelings of them, personal interpretations based on our old emotions. We put our personal past on the present with the result that joy, beauty and love don't seem to last. But it's our emotional substitutes that don't last and we become bored, discontented and unhappy again. The sensation or knowledge of joy, beauty and love is of course still there but it's overwhelmed by these coarser feelings.“
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
„You had better go where Fate leads—
Drift on the Stream of Infinite Flux,
Without joy, without fear:
When you must go—then go.“
— Tao Yuanming Chinese poet 365 - 427
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit, "Spirit expounds"
Translated by Arthur Waley
„Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.“
— Georg Brandes Danish literature critic and scholar 1842 - 1927
p. 41
„The joy that is everywhere/ Is the true joy of being/ The joy that is life itself!“
— Kuruvilla Pandikattu Indian philosopher 1957
Joy: Share it! p. 140.
„We should not hold on so strongly to those who are going to leave us some day anyway. We should not feel excessive attachment for them. We have to keep it in moderation. But there is One who will never leave us, One who will never perish. God will never leave us, not in the kingdom of heaven, nor in the kingdom of hell, nor in this world. And since judgment is in His hands, He is the only attachment we must have. If we hold on to only that one attachment, then we will have joy throughout our lives and even at the time of death. On Judgment Day we will know that joy, because we will be with Him.“
— Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Sri Lankan Sufi leader 1900 - 1986
Questions of Life Answers of Wisdom, Vol.1 (2001)
„Joy is like restless day; but peace divine
Like quiet night;
Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine
Through Peace to Light.“
— Adelaide Anne Procter English poet and songwriter 1825 - 1864
"Per Pacem ad Lucem".
