Chapter 86Beatitude and Bliss

JOY Joy comes when you take the right attitude.

* Joy comes from submission to the divine command.

6 May 1933

* Joy of spirituality: the reward of sincere effort.

* Once a man has tasted the joys of inner life nothing else will ever satisfy him.

* No joy is comparable to the feeling of the eternal Presence in one’s heart.

4 July 1954

* Joy of integral peace: calm and tranquil, a smile which does not disappoint.

* Joy’s call: it is modest and rarely makes itself heard.

* There is no greater bliss than that of being like a newborn child in front of the Divine.

19 October 1954

* The immutable Beatitude of the Divine is translated in the consciousness by an impelling force of progress of an incomparable intensity. This force is transformed in the most external being into a calm and assured will which no obstacles can overthrow.

20-21 October 1954

* To know beatitude is to know the Divine. To know the Divine is to know beatitude. They are intimately and eternally united in an indissoluble identity.

30 August 1967