LIVE YOUR LIFE WITH EXUBERANCE AND PASSION !! EXUBERANCE THE JOY WITHIN IS GOD WITHIN !! - sudhanshu

GOOD EVENING TO YOU !!

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LIVE YOUR LIFE WITH EXUBERANCE AND PASSION !!

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EXUBERANCE THE JOY WITHIN IS GOD WITHIN !!

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Just came across this word in an article in newspaper today morning – Life indeed has to be lived with full exuberance and passion with full gusto. I remembered a book I read couple of years back – Exuberance - Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Jamison, Kay Redfield- a very good exposition on exuberance. I culled out the book from by old bookself in the study – opened it and in came the following passage which I feel like quoting -

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“Exuberance is an abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion. It is kinetic and unrestrained, joyful, irrepressible. It is not happiness, although they share a border. It is instead, at its core, a more restless, billowing state. Certainly it is no lulling sense of contentment: exuberance leaps, bubbles, and overflows, propels its energy through troop and tribe. It spreads upward and outward, like pollen toted by dancing bees, and in this carrying ideas are moved and actions taken. Yet exuberance and joy are fragile matter. Bubbles burst; a wince of disapproval can cut dead a whistle or abort a cartwheel. The exuberant move above the horizon, exposed and vulnerable.

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Exuberance keeps occasional company with grief, though grief may command the greater mention. Blake’s belief that “Under every grief & pine/Runs a joy with silken twine” is a received theme in folklore. Our greatest joys and sorrows ripen on the same vine, says the American proverb. Danger and delight grow on one stalk, maintains the English one. Intense emotions inhabit a correspondent territory: joy may be our wings and sorrow our spurs, but the boundaries between the moods are open. Wings and high moods are shivery things; the joyous do indeed need shielding.” (Redfield )

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I was just wondering today !! – Exuberance is a vital emotion; it demands not only defense but exposure, for despair far more than joy has found sympathy with poets and scholars. Joy lacks the gravitas that suffering so effortlessly commands. Joy without reflection is evanescent; without counterweight, it has no weight at all. Or so one would think. Yet joy is essential to our existence. Exuberance, joy’s more energetic relation, occupies an ancient region of our mammalian selves, and one to which we owe in no small measure our survival and triumphs. It is a material part of our pursuits——and it is a vibrant force to signal victory, proclaim a time to quicken, to draw together, to exult, to celebrate. Exuberance is ancient, material, and profound. “The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the hidden side of things,” wrote Louis Pasteur. “They bequeathed to us one of word ‘enthusiasm’—en theos—a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.”

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Like many essential human traits, exuberance is teeming in some and not to be caught sight of in others. For a few, exuberance is in the blood, an irrepressible life force. It may ebb and flow, but the underlying capacity for joy is as much a part of the person as having green eyes or a long waist. For them, as the psalm promises, a full joy cometh in the morning. Not so for most others. Exuberance is a more occasional thing, something to be experienced only at splendid moments of love or attainment, or known in youth but lost with time. The non exuberant lack fizz and risibility: they need to be lifted up on the enthusiasm

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Exuberance is a peculiarly pleasurable state within, and in that pleasure is power.

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And that joyful pleasure within is GOD WITHIN !!

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God Bless you !!

MUCH LOVE

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Sudhanshu Bhushan

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