Rejoice, and be exceeding glad

 

My 76-year-old self and my 12-year-old self
have decided to come together in this guy.

Rudolf Steiner:  "For when a man is face to face with the Spirit of his own Youth — and such a thing is always possible — then he gives something of his riper understanding to the childlike ideas of the Spirit of his Youth, and at the same time the Spirit of his Youth gives something of his freshness, his childlikeness, to what the man of older years possesses."

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner:  "A true knowledge of the human being loosens and releases the inner life of soul and brings a smile to the face. Sour and grumpy faces come only from a lack of knowledge."

Anandamayi Ma

“The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”  ― Julian of Norwich

"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad"  — Matthew 5:12

"You should be leading lives of joy —  deep inner joy in the truth! There is nothing in the world more delightful, nothing more fascinating, than the experience of truth."  — Rudolf Steiner

"Rejoice in the Lord always:

and again I say, Rejoice."

— Philippians 4:4

Goethe:  "To what avail is all expenditure and labor of suns and planets and moons, of stars and galaxies, of comets and of nebulae, and of completed and still growing worlds, if not at last a happy man rejoices in his existence?”

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."

— Proverbs 17:22

"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance."
— Galatians 5:22-23

Once when we were passing each other Swamiji planted himself in front of me and said "You should be happier." I replied "I'm sure you're right, Swamiji. Almost everyone—" Swamiji cut me off: "No! No! YOU should be happier!"

Be the banjoy!

"This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it."
— Psalm 118:24

Life is an open book — read it and weep for joy!

Continued: https://martyrion.blogspot.com/2023/03/today-is-my-76th-birthday-bringing-in.html?fbclid=IwAR2yVZrpvIFKInbWPOLTvNVD1-Mv8EHvHwRJOT_kD4XJ1Y-lojcq0jZG8Uk