A joyful mind may be…

When your mind is curious and interested, not suspicious and interrogating.

When your mind does not “brood over injuries.”

When you do not need to humiliate, critique, or defeat those who have hurt you – not even in your mind.

When your mind does not need to create self-justifying story lines.

When your mind does not need the future to be better than today.

When your mind can let go of obsessive or negative thoughts.

Taken From: The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See by Richard Rohr

Where you stumble and fall, there you find gold. Carl Jung

What is a joyful mind?

When your mind does not need to be right.

When you no longer need to compare yourself with others.

When you no longer need to compete – not even in your own head.

When your mind can be creative but without needing anyone to know.

When you can live in contentment with whatever the moment offers.

When you do not need to analyze or judge things in or out, positive or negative.

When your mind does not need to be in charge, but can serve the moment with gracious and affirming information.

When your mind follows the intelligent lead of your heart.

Taken From: The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See by Richard Rohr

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this “emotion” is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, or stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

“Wondering” is a word connoting at least three things:

1. Standing in disbelief.

2. Standing in the question itself.

3. Standing in awe before something.

from: The Naked Now by Richard Rohr

All that is hidden and all that is plain I have come to know through Wisdom. Within her is a spirit intelligent, unique, manifold, subtle, active, incisive, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, dependable, unperturbed, all seeing…She pervades and permeates all things, she is the untarnished mirror of God’s active power. She is one, and makes all things new, and in each generation passes into holy souls.  Wisdom 7:21-27