Joy of Earth

Tell the heavens and earth to celebrate and sing! Command every mountain to join in song!
Isaiah 49:13

Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass:
in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:
in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh
that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise
of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise
of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.
Rabindranath Tagore

When we walk like (we are running), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth… Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music
The Bible Psalm 98:4

Reaching the joy swollen land
Powers of seeing expand,
And there is joy and laughter;
Even chasing objects there is no separation.

From joy, buds of pure pleasure emerge,
Bursting into blooms of supreme pleasure,
And so long as outflow is contained
Unutterable bliss will surely mature.
~Royal Song of Saraha

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering;
surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.
Louise Bogan ,What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

There is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap;
the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish
little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world
will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold.
No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold,
All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea.

Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by!
No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky,
Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
William Morris

Joy is a constituent of life, a necessity of life;
it is an element of life’s value and life’s power.
As every person has need of joy, so too, every person
has a right to joy . . . It is a condition of religious living.
Paul Wilhelm von Keppler

“Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it.”
— Osho

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran