Joy is a fountain of joy... but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
Joy is a tool enabling each of us to develop power the power to carry out our intentions. When our personality is increasingly integrated, whole, centered on our aims, we gain the power to know what . ..
Joy is, along with sorrow, the only way a person becomes known to himself. It is only through joy and sorrow that one learns what to do and what to avoid.
Joy is a passion by which the mind passes from a lesser to a greater perfection, which is to say, that his power of acting . . . Is increased.
Joy is (along with sorrow) not in the heart as blood is in the heart, just as sensations of touch are not in the skin as pieces of organic tissue are.
Joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it other than to stop driving it away.