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Happiness and Joy
CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness: a joyous smile of Nature.
Cheerful endeavour: the joy that one finds in the effort towards the Divine.
Mental cheerfulness: it knows how to take delight in everything.
Keep a cheerful mind and a peaceful heart. Let nothing disturb your equanimity and make every day the necessary progress to advance with me steadily towards the goal. 29 October 1934 Happy heart: smiling, peaceful, wide open, without a shadow. Page — 192 You must never forget that you are much more helpful when you are quietly happy than when you become dramatic. 5 October 1932 Be happy, my child, it is the surest way of progress. 12 April 1934 Happiness is as contagious as gloom ― and nothing can be more useful than to pass on to people the contagion of a true and deep happiness. 25 October 1934 Try to be happy ― immediately you will be closer to the Light. 11 July 1935 Indeed he is happy who loves the Divine because the Divine is always with him. 7 March 1937 So many problems have been facing me of late. I wonder how they are to be solved happily.
The only way to a true and lasting happiness is a complete and exclusive reliance on the Divine’s Grace. 19 October 1941 Always be good and you will always be happy. 13 October 1951 Page ― 193 Let us always do the right thing and we shall always be quiet and happy. 24 May 1954 Let us seek our happiness only in the Divine. 5 June 1954 When the Divine grants the true inner happiness nothing in the world has the power to snatch it away. 5 October 1954 Spiritual happiness: calm and smiling, nothing can disturb it.
Always remember that on the happiness you give will depend the happiness you get. 2 June 1963 The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive. 4 July 1965 To be concerned for one’s happiness is the surest way of becoming unhappy.
If we want to keep our happiness intact and pure, we must do our best not to attract upon it the attention of unfriendly thoughts. Page ― 194 To be always happy, with an unclouded, unfluctuating happiness — of all things this is the most difficult to accomplish.
Joy comes when you take the right attitude.
Joy comes from submission to the divine command. 6 May 1933 Joy of spirituality: the reward of sincere effort.
Once a man has tasted the joys of inner life nothing else will ever satisfy him.
No joy is comparable to the feeling of the eternal Presence in one’s heart. 4 July 1954 Joy of integral peace: calm and tranquil, a smile which does not disappoint. Page ― 195 Joy’s call: it is modest and rarely makes itself heard.
There is no greater bliss than that of being like a newborn child in front of the Divine. 19 October 1954 The immutable Beatitude of the Divine is translated in the consciousness by an impelling force of progress of an incomparable intensity. This force is transformed in the most external being into a calm and assured will which no obstacles can overthrow. 20-21 October 1954 To know beatitude is to know the Divine. To know the Divine is to know beatitude. They are intimately and eternally united in an indissoluble identity. 30 August 1967 Page ― 196 |