#pxxiv

[flowingrooted]

The more you are living a committed life well, the more joy will be your steady state, the frame of mind you carry around with you and shine on others. So ... joy is our north star, our navigating point. If we steer toward joy, we will wind up at the right spot.

—David Brooks

[flowingrooted]

Joy tends to involve some transcendence of self. It's when the skin barrier between you and some other person or entity fades away and you feel fused together. ... Joy often involves self-forgetting.

—David Brooks

[ryangreenwood]

there is so much with just those three words. worth looking at, most notably, "es" is translated as "ash tree" in both Afrikaan and Dutch.