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Quotes from Joy: Share It! — Kuruvilla Pandikattu

born 1957 India

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The paradox of life is: Joy prepares one for more sadness and the other way around also.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

The joy that is everywhere/ Is the true joy of being/ The joy that is life itself!

Joy: Share It! (2018)

After realising the depth of tragedy, we can and need to be joyful in hope.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

Joy emerges from my little, timid life/ of everydayness and temerity.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

As ever approachable and never attainable,/ the journey ventures on and on/ Without limit and borders/ And with full openness toward the infinite possibilities.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

The reward of joy is joy itself; not for its own sake; but for the sake of others.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

To find the joy of living/ Is to experience the joy of dying/ Where the pain of parting/ Lads to still deeper joy of becoming.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

Calm and peaceful mind/ Prevents us from being a slave to the other/ Ana makde us in charge of/ Our own happiness and fulfilment.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

Real genuine joy is borne of sadness and sorrow.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers ... and still preserve the hope.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

Thus genuine joy is contagious/ Reaching out, especially, to the underprivileged/ And in this sense, enables a circle of compassion/ Involving the larger community of life itself.

Joy: Share It! (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kuruvilla Pandikattu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.