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Joy, Play And The Meaning of Life
“Don’t judge yourself. Don’t beat yourself up. Be your own best friend. It’s all about having fun and relaxing into life. No matter what you’re going through, whatever your issues are, the idea really is about increasing your frequency, your energy. You do that by developing a sense of humor, by doing things that bring you joy.”
— Anita Moorjani
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The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: say ‘yes’ to it all.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy. When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree.
The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
~ Joseph Campbell
We who have grown up in a Puritan infected society learned quite early to contain our pleasures. Joy and enjoyment weren’t the guiding principles of a life well lived. Serious work and success filled those roles. We had to prove ourselves to our society. We had to buckle down and live by the sweat of our furrowed brows. We learned to look askance at those frivolous folks devoted to the arts, even as we tried not to envy them.
