We need to recover an oasis of silence within the rhyme and reason of our active life, for it is in silence that we meet God face to face.
~ Max Picard
We know joy when we are happy to take from life what is given. When we experience the joy of the soul and higher states of consciousness, this joy is the essence of completion and fulfillment. There is nothing that can add to it or take away from it. Joy is our natural state.