If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

JOY

1.    All who would win joy, must share it. ~Lord Byron

2.    Joy is not in things, it is in us. ~Jess Lair

3.    I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with what ever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us. ~Rachel Naomi Remen