Being Loved & Finding Joy

"Most of us have grown up thinking that being loved means being made much of. Our whole world seems to be built on this assumption. If I love you, I make much of you. I help you feel good about yourself. It is as though a sight of the self is the secret to joy.
But we know better....we know this is not so. Our happiest moments have not been self-saturated moments, but self-forgetful moments. There have been time when we have stood beside the Grand Canyon, or at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, or viewed a stunning sunset over the Sahara, and for a fleeting moment felt the joy of sheer wonder. This is what we were made for. Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors. It will be a display of majesty. And it won't be ours."
J.P., TPoJC, #49, p. 117

True joy is the satisfaction of that which is most perfect, most good.