Sympathetic Joy Quotes
Sympathetic Joy Quote of the day
Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.
By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.
To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.