Living one good deed at a time 🙂
Give happiness and you will receive happiness. Give peace and you will feel peaceful. Give sorrow and you will get sorrow in return. Create thoughts and words that give only peace and happiness. The world is filled with worry and sorrow. Do something different.
This quote says NOTHING about affecting the other persons emotions....whihc
and yet the opening post suggests 'Give happiness and you will receive happiness'.
I was only relating to how the post was expressed ..
I think individuals can give of themselves and if one is feeling the joy or the light or happiness then that is the essence of what they can bring to another .. I for one can notice what another brings to the table ...
If they are self haters instead of lovers then what they give off is a reflection of that .
x daz x
Indeed give happiness.....and you make yourself happier.....regardless of whether the other person/people are happier.
Indeed give happiness.....and you make yourself happier.....regardless of whether the other person/people are happier.
If you have 'given happiness' but the other person is not happier, then how have you done anything?
Give happiness and you will receive happiness. Give peace and you will feel peaceful. Give sorrow and you will get sorrow in return. Create thoughts and words that give only peace and happiness. The world is filled with worry and sorrow. Do something different.
Well Mike, for what it's worth, I appreciated your post! 😉
I was reminded of it today when I heard a healing that came about through joy and an article that quoted from this book by Jacques Lusseyran, a blind member of the French Resistance who was imprisoned by the Nazis.
The English title of the book is "The world begins today". Jacques shared his memories of his time in a concentration camp in January 1944 with six thousand other Frenchmen. There was one man in particular, Jeremy who stood out. Jeremy found joy even in the midst of horror.
Jacques tells of the indelible impression this man made on him: "Jeremy was an example: he found joy in the midst of Block 57. He found it during moments of the day where we found only fear. And he found it in such great abundance that when he was present we felt it rise in us. Inexplicable sensation, incredible even, there where we were: joy was going to fill us.
"Imagine this gift which Jeremy gave us! We did not understand, but we thanked him, time and again.
"What joy? ... the joy of being alive in this moment, in the next, each time we became aware of it.... It was a pardon, a reprieve, there, all of a sudden, just a few feet from hell. I knew this state through Jeremy. Others knew it also, I am sure.
"The joy of discovering that joy exists, that it is in us, just exactly as life is, without conditions and which no condition, even the worst, can kill."1
1 Jacques Lusseyran, Le monde commence aujourd'hui (Paris: Editions de la Table Ronde, 1959). Translated by Noelle Oxenhandler in Parabola, May 1986, p. 26
Love and peace
Judy
Sensitive people can pick up on another's mood.