I went for a walk yesterday, in between 2 projects I was working on, and when I came down to the beach… oh my God!
Just the vast beach, the sea, the sun and me….(The tourists were gone . I love you tourists, but still… 
)
I just had to lie down on the sand (which is not what you’d usually do here at this time of the year 
) … The feeling of being carried by the Earth and caressed by the wind and sun…How blessed I felt…
And we can have the same feeling without the beach and the sea and the sun, just contemplating a tiny green leaf on a rainy day… When we open to what is here with that open sense of joy …and there is nothing but that, and gratitude…
It reminds me… Back when I was married almost every morning I would wake up with a feeling of joy and deep gratitude for the man by my side. Naturally, I ascribed the joy to him and our relationship.
But then the day came for our ways to part. 3 very unhappy weeks followed…
And then the morning came when I woke up to the same joy and gratitude as before! In spite of the divorce, the transition, the uncertain future (little did I know that my future would be as fulfilling as it is now).
That’s the true nature of joy (and gratitude). It’s here for no reason, it just flows through us. And when we let it flow like that, it can touch other people too, gently, like a wind, reminding them of the Light that lives within them.