"Joy may be made by hard-won,
practised achievement
as much as by an unlooked for,
passing act of grace
arrived out of nowhere;
joy, to our consternation,
is a measure of our relationship to death
and our living with death;
joy is the act of giving ourselves away
before we need to or asked to;
joy is practised generosity."
Taken from the book Consolations by David Whyte
Published by Canongate 2014
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