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December 30, 2002
Guidelines for Joy Dylan calls
Guidelines for Joy
Dylan calls them rules for living, but his lovely post strikes me more as guidelines for consistent, growing, wonderful joy. Read them and incorporate the spirit of them if not the actual rules. His important point, the final line, I would elaborate on by truncation: "Cultivate gratitude." A wise Jesuit Priest was fond of saying (and I believe it to be true) that a truly grateful person cannot be unhappy. This makes sense to me. If you are thankful for everything, there is no time to be miserable. It explains the "paradox" of the "happy poor." Thank for the reminder Dylan.
Posted by Steven Riddle at December 30, 2002 10:58 AM