you know that feeling you get when your movie comes on that you aint seen in a long time or that song that was playin when you experienced your first french kiss or that smell that reminds you of that time when you were small and your daddy picked you up and threw you in the air or you remember looking up at the sky and feeling such peace and contentment that any other emotions thoughts or memories weren't even faded but non-existent? that feeling that takes you someplace beyond your troubles beyond what others may think or do to you or even beyond what you've done to someone else? that state of mind that wakes you up to the moment to the reality that lies beyond the bills and the corn on your little toe or that sickness that threatens you or that argument that you just had? that emotion that rises in your heart and fills your body with an energy that just wants to explode to awaken every cell in your body and let them sing the song of creation in every tone in every chord in every voice in every language in creation and beyond?
do you know what i'm talking about?
i'm talking about joy. i'm talking about pure unadulterated happiness. the knowing that you are alive and that you have consciousness that you have a reason for being that you love and that you are loved and that love is your our birthright our possession and that it belongs to each of us. the knowing that love is not selfish that love does not curse scream and hate that love is buoyant that love lifts you up that love is eternal that love is free that you are free that we are free that we can be anything and everything that we want and know that we can and should be right now. this minute.
jump in the air just to do it. yell scream with delight! get on your knees and get your nice new pants dirty. go to the park and play with the kids. turn off the tv walk outside your house and just run for the hell of it. call an old friend that you haven't talked to in years. make conversation with that crazy stranger on the bus. do something that you love and that makes you happy. stop living in the past in the worries and in the concerns about the things that really dont matter because they are transitory and believe in the future believe in whatever makes you want to live to the best of your ability. do the things that you've been wanting to do for so long but have been afraid to do. forget what fear is. forget what worry is. forget what responsibility is and do what you feel.
joy exists there in that space where everything else becomes illusory. because that is the truth. everything else is illusory. the state of the omniverse is joy! your cells are singing right now even beyond the poisoning that our diets have imposed upon them even beyond the pain we may feel now from whatever physical social or emotional source impinged upon our divine right to know happiness. joy is our original state of being and what we will return to if and when we decide to truly live the life that we know we can live if only we can get past what is keeping us locked up inside of ourselves joyless.
joy threatens just beyond pain. joy lives beyond thought beyond what we call reality and really isn't. just thinking of the word makes me happy. joy. joy. joy joy. joyjoyjoyjoyjoyjoyjoy. see what i mean? you try it.
I have written a chapter called I Am That, I Am in this inspirational compilation book by best-selling authors and wonderful people from all walks of life xox :-D (Its sister book is called Adventures In Manifesting - Success and Spirituality)
