Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.
Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life__ shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way_Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, __here is joy is self-forgetfulness._ So I try to make the light in others_ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others_ lips my happiness.
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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life__ shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way_Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, __here is joy is self-forgetfulness._ So I try to make the light in others_ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others_ lips my happiness.
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