"Collective creativity is a source of joy: something growing within a group that emerges as a new entity. Nature, beauty, and the process of becoming inspire joy. Culture is a source of joy. Joy derives from whatever one finds good or harmonious. We feel joy when body, psyche, and the world around us are in tune, when we can affirm existence, especially under the aspect of increase and intensification of being. We are joyful when something grows, when we have the feeling that new areas of life are becoming available to us, when we become freer and more daring. We experience these situations as an intensification of being, but also as a surprising gift. The same joy can grip us when persons we are connected with or close to open new vistas and cover new ground on their path through life. There are lots of occasions for joy, but we can think of joy as a way of feeling, of being that underlies our particular responses and which we tap into when the occasion offers itself. I think it is important not only to recognize when we are in a joyful mood, but also to perceive that we are beings of joy. We can do this when we take continual notice of situations that stimulate joy, when we search for them as far as we are able. We experience ourselves most clearly as joyful beings when we construct our biographies of joy.”