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Sam Keen, Learning to Fly
I think we need a new word — "comjoyment" — as a companion to "compassion" to remind us that our greatest gift to the world may be in sharing what gives us the greatest joy.
Our greatest gift is sharing what gives us joy
Sharon Salzberg, The Kindness Handbook
Learning to share in the joy of others transforms our thinking about where we can find happiness. Usually we rejoice in what we get, not in what others have. But sympathetic joy is a practice of generosity, and giving isn't just about doing someone a favor — it also makes us feel better.
Learning to share in the joy of others
Soshitsu Sen XV , The World in a Bowl of Tea
In my own hands I hold a bowl of tea; I see all of nature represented in its green color. Closing my eyes I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently, sitting alone, drinking tea, I feel these become part of me. Sharing this bowl of tea with others, they, too, become one with it and nature.
See all of nature represented in tea
Thich Nhat Hanh, Friends on the Path
What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others.
What is most important is to find peace
Edwin A. Robinson, Wisdom from World Religions
There are two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Gratitude for what we take and what we give
Let Davidson, Wisdom at Work
Cyberspace is a new domain for sharing our underlying unity of consciousness or spirit.
Our underlying unity of consciousness or spirit.
Jacques Lusseyran, Against the Pollution of the I
Whenever we take the trouble to plumb the depths of an experience and extract from it all it contains, the simplest as well as the most hidden, we cease to speak of ourselves and ourselves alone. Instead, we enter the realm of the most precious, the realm of universal experience, which we share with all others.
Entering the realm of universal experience
Morris Adler, Practice Random Acts of Kindness
The quiet, probably unnoticed, sharing in a neighbor's joy, no less than in his sorrow, constitutes an act of kindness.
Sharing in a neighbor's joy
Dean Sluyter, The Zen Commandments
It's not enough to sing in the rain ourselves — we're got to pass the torch along to others, perfect strangers included.
Pass the torch along
Yitzhak Buxbaum, The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov
[Rabbi Israel bin Eliezer] had himself tasted the divine fruit of the Tree of Life. How could he keep that happiness for himself? He wanted to cry out to his brothers and sisters, "Taste and see that the Lord is good!"
How could he keep that happiness for himself?