Sunday, February 20, 2011

Joy

While we all seem to agree that joy is hard to define, or even figure out, we had some good talk about it.

It certainly is not the same as happiness. Happiness is nice and good, but short and more surfacy (kinda superficial) comepared to joy.

Joy seems to be deeper inside us - longer lasting - and less dependent on our circumstances. We could be in a great time of our lives or a not so great time of our lives and have joy, but not necessarily happiness.

It seems that joy comes from inside more and happiness from outside more - like joy rises from within us and happiness is something we get done to us or something we achieve or get or buy or have...

What do you think?

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