Daily Meditation: Friday, January 16, 2009
Just as humans tend to confuse happiness and pleasure, they …
Just as humans tend to confuse happiness and pleasure, they also confuse joy and pleasure. What is pleasure? An agreeable sensation. And yet, there are activities of devotion and sacrifice which give no pleasure but are sources of pure joy. When you have experienced such joys, whether or not you sought the experience consciously or of your own free will, others benefit from them, whereas your selfish pleasures bring them nothing positive, and in the long run you will find they’ve not even been of benefit to you either. Believe me, one day you will discover joy in precisely the opposite direction from where you imagined it to be, in other words in sacrifice, in the renouncing of all kinds of possessions and in limiting what you thought to be your freedom.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
