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Pleasure is the delight and fulfillment of the body (soma)
Happiness is the delight and fulfillment of the soul(psyche)
Joy is the delight and fulfillment of the spirit (nous)Bliss is the delight and fulfillment of the Holy Spirit(pneuma)
When his peace and equanimity arise and fulfilled in us, these are the closest, most intimate reflections of his quickening Life.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to harvest; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
A certain man planted a roseand watered it faithfully.Before it blossomed, he examined it.He saw a bud that would soon blossom.He also saw the thorns, and he thought,"How can any beautiful flower come from a plant,burdened with so many sharp thorns?"Saddened by this thought,he neglected to water the rose,and before it was ready to bloom, it died.So it is with many people ...Within every soul ... there is a Rose.The "G-d-like" qualities planted in us at birth,growing amidst the thorns of our faults.Many of us look at ourselves andsee only the thorns, the defects.We despair, thinking nothing goodcan possibly come from us.We neglect to water the good within us,and eventually it dies.We never realize our potential.Some don't see the rose within themselves ...It takes someone else to show it to them.One of the greatest gifts a person can possess ...is to be able to reach past the thornsand find the rose within others.This is the truest, most innocent,and gracious characteristic of love -to know another person,including their faults,recognize the nobility in their soul,and yet still help another torealize they can overcome their faults.If we show them the rose,they will conquer the thorns.Only then will they blossom,and most likely, blooming thirty,sixty, a hundred-fold,as it is given to them.Our duty in this world is to help others,by showing them their roses and not their thorns.It is then that we achieve thelove we should feel for each other.Only then can we bloom
in our own garden.
Author Unknown
