After reviewing my Site, you would probably say to yourself: "Listen to this. We've got a pot calling the kettle black here!" Well, allow me to describe how I look at it.
People have this idea that Divine is never humorous. God can not laugh, and that eveybody has to act very sacred around the Divine. I wish we would all lighten up a bit. All of us would smile instead. Someone once said: "You grow up the day that you have a good laugh at yourself."
Being Joyful, is the first attitude that is recommended. It comes before anything else. It is what makes everything possible. Without Joy, there is nothing. I'm saying that unless we get a little humor in our lives, none of it is going to make any sense. I'm saying that laughter is the best medicine. I'm saying that joy is good for the soul.
I'll go further and say that Joy is the Soul. The soul is that which we would call joy. Pure joy. Endless joy. Unadulterated, unlimited, unrestricted joy. That is the nature of the soul.
A smile is a window to your soul. Laughter is the door.
If the soul is so joyous, why aren't we?
The answer lies in our minds. We must "be of a mind" to be joyful if we are to release the joy that is in our hearts.
Our hearts is the corridor between our soul and our mind. The joy in our soul must move through our hearts, otherwise it will "not even enter our mind!"
Feelings are the language of soul. They will back up in our hearts if we have closed minds. That is why, when we are feeling very, very sad, we say that our heart is breaking. And that is why, when we are feeling very, very happy, we say that our hearts is bursting!
Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.
Joy is life, expressing. The free flow of life energy is what we call joy. The essence of life is Oneness -- Unity with All That Is. This is what life is: Unity, expressing. The feeling of unity is the feeling that we call love. Therefore, in our languages, it is said that the essence of life is love. Joy, then is love, expressing freely.
Whenever the free and unlimited expression of life and love -- that is, the experience of unity and oneness with all things and with every sentient being -- is prohibited or limited by any circumestance or condition, the soul, which is joy itself, is not fully expressed. Joy not fully expressed is the feeling that we call sadness.
Keep in mind though that joy and sandess, hot or cold, here and there are not seperate from each other. Nothing is. There is nothing in the Universe that is seperate from anything else. Sadness and joy are therefore the same thing in varying degrees.
Take "Life is Beautiful" the movie for example. It is an incredible example of how laughter heals. Or how sadness and joy can intermingle. This is life energy itself. This flow of sadness/joy.
This energy can be expressed in a way that we call joy at any time. That is because the energy of life can be controlled. Like turning a thermostat from cold to hot, you can speed up the vibration of life energy , from sadness to joy.
And I tell you this my friend:
GOD is life, at it's highest vibration, which is joy itself. God is totally joyful, and we will move to our own expressions of godliness when we express this First Blessing Attitude called Joy!
