Acts

They provide more joy than thoughts and feelings do

April 25th 2024

Every being needs to think in order to satisfy the intellect, to feel emotion to satisfy the heart, and, finally, to act so as to satisfy the will.
But it is through action that we know the greatest joy. Fulfilment is not found in understanding or feeling, but in achievement. When we perform an action, we feel in tune, at one with the primordial force. Action is the result of the concentration of all our energies, with the participation of every cell in our being, leading to its successful achievement.* This is why every act of kindness, wisdom, selflessness and love carried out with full awareness brings us fulfilment.
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One of the most important faculties is to rejoice, not to possess. Joy is in our higher nature and pain is in our lower nature. So if we want to taste real, eternal joy, we must seek to live in soul and in spirit. They alone have the power to project us into infinite space for the higher nature...