Who Do We Choose To Be?

INTERCONNECTEDNESS: RESTORING SANITY

The Joy of Interbeing²⁰

In the pursuit of happiness, we estrange ourselves from joy.

Once you’ve known joy, you are no longer confused about the difference. Joy is a sensation of your entire being, difficult to describe in words but similarly known by anyone who’s experienced it. The experience of joy often feels the same as sadness.

In my own experience, joy and sadness are the same—my being feels embraced and alive. I am present with energy beyond what my physical body can contain yet it does. I am laughing. I am crying. It doesn’t matter which.

I know joy to be the experience of connection, communion, presence, grace, as it is.

My own experiences have helped me understand what others describe as their ...