Why is the soul so happy? People aren’t that happy. I mean, the people whose souls these
are don’t seem all that happy, so what’s going on here?
That’s a wonderful question. If the soul is so joyous, why aren’t you? That’s a perfectly
wonderful question.
The answer lies in your mind. You must “be of a mind” to be joyful if you are to release the
joy that is in your heart.
I thought the joy was in your soul.
Your heart is the corridor between your soul and your mind. The joy in your soul must move
through your heart, otherwise it will “not even enter your mind.”
Feelings are the language of the soul. They will back up in your heart if you have a closed
mind. That is why, when you are feeling very, very sad, you say that your heart is breaking.
And that is why, when you are feeling very, very happy, you say that your heart is bursting.
Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will
neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.
But if the soul is joy, how can it ever be sad?
Joy is life, expressing. The free flow of life energy is what you call joy. The essence of life is
Oneness—unity with All That Is. This is what life is: unity, expressing. The feeling of unity is
the feeling that you call love. Therefore, in your language, it is said that the essence of life is
love. Joy, then, is love, expressing freely.
Whenever the free and unlimited expression of life and love—that is, the experience of unity
and oneness with all things and with every sentient being—is prohibited or limited by any
circumstance or condition, the soul, which is joy itself, is not fully expressed. Joy not fully
expressed is the feeling that you call sadness.
I’m confused. How can a thing be one thing if it is another? How can a thing be cold if its
essence is that which is hot? How can the soul be sad if its essence is joy?
You misunderstand the nature of the universe. You are still seeing things as separate. Hot
and cold are not separate from each other. Nothing is. There is nothing in the Universe that is
separate from anything else. Hot and cold are, therefore, the same thing in varying degrees.
So, too, are sadness and joy.
What a terrific insight! I never thought of it that way. Sadness and joy are just two names.
They are words we have used to describe different levels of the same energy.
Different expressions of the Universal Force, yes. And that is why these two feelings can be
experienced in the same moment. Can you imagine such a thing?
Yes! I have felt sadness and joy at the same time.
Of course you have. It is not unusual at all.