Comments on: Joy is like sex

By: mehboobeh

mehboobeh — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:35:40 +0000

so like what i am feeling at the moment.
thank you for sharing.
i have expected a lot from myself and from others to give me happiness.
now, i started living and experiencing each day as it comes, and that’s the time i experience contentment.
and now i’m happy.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:57:05 +0000

very nice writing Carlos I enjoyed reading it! Thank you

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:31:53 +0000

And you think that people are not addicted to joy..?

By: Carlos Miceli

Carlos Miceli — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:44 +0000

I wrote about this a while ago, it’s reassuring to see you think something similar.

http://www.owlsparks.com/decisions/the-mistaken-priority-of-happiness/

Good post.

By: ahmed elawad

ahmed elawad — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:32:45 +0000

no need for proof for the god existance .. coz his existance inside , which mean , if u want something to get from bottom of ur heartt and u juss said oh .. god plz i need this thing .. believe me u will get … so that god existance is everywhere …around us but most important should be in our inside us and that wht make us believers … with many thing beyond this like destiny ….. and others .. so think well and thn say wht u want to say …….

By: Shiva

Shiva — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:44:12 +0000

Just wanted to share with my fellow WOL’s and ofcourse Mr. Coelho.

The strange woman in the mirror by Attiya Dawood

The strange woman in the mirror,
What is she thinking?
I ask her – what is it? She avoids me.

I paint my lips red, she begins to sob.
When I look in her eyes, she asks me questions,
which are even more strange.

Home, husband, children…..I have all
that makes up happiness.
But I don’t know what she wants.

By: Free not whore

Free not whore — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:12:52 +0000

Joy is like sex, so sex is like joy????

By: jeeva

jeeva — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:09:52 +0000

You attract 2 things in life,
1. Things you love
2. Things you fear

If you love joy ,you shall get joy. And you’ll have joy until you think of what joy can do to you………
Being at present, unconditional love is the answer. Or is it?

By: The Odd

The Odd — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:08:41 +0000

Joy is a state of mind escaping a clear thought.

By: Flora

Flora — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:52 +0000

When it goes away you cry a river, hapiness … when you felt you were no longer one cause you were once one with the one who brought hapiness joy and sex into your life, joy is no longer the same, sex no longer has the same taste, and you wonder if hapiness is fiction or reality as you can only close your eyes and dream about joy and sex. Pleasure is sometimes a lonely state and love can leave you … what to do, what to do, when the one is silent and sex in no longer joy but only pleasure!…
”Real love is composed of ecstacy and agony”

By: james

james — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:16:22 +0000

Joy is like sex, but sex is cool & joy like sex is temporary….in-a-nutshell…..a state of mind……

By: Tlou

Tlou — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:22:59 +0000

I have not heard anything like this before and yet it has been right before and i totally agree. One writer says, “it is impossible to understand without faith”

By: Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:01:43 +0000

Happiness, like joy, exists only in the moment. When I can let go of that moment as freely as I entered it and embrace the next one then I am free.

Happiness is a way of seeing, a form of perception, that asks nothing of the external world, but knows how to sing with the Divine in everything.

It is, as it is and it is perfect as it is. Inbetween is the paradox of life that can appear so beautiful and yet so ugly, so inspiring and yet so terrifying. Happiness is being able to hold both in the depth of your being and knowing that what you experience in the moment is a choice between them – that the struggle between them is only an illusion. The true warrior knows that she is not defined by the battle, she is greater than it.

By: Shagun Suhail

Shagun Suhail — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:14:32 +0000

it is so true!

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:28:56 +0000

Het geloof is geen verlangen.Geloven is Willen. Verlangens zijn altijd dingen die vervuld moeten worden, de Wil is een Kracht. De Wil verandert de ruimte om ons heen. Maar daarvoor is wel een Verlangen noodzakelijk. witch of portobello.
to be Different..

By: concepcion

concepcion — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:41:27 +0000

Amor y alegria yo tengo para dar siento que están dentro de mi y a veces simplemente me brota incluso sin quererlo. Pero la felicidad, es responsabilidad de lo que cada uno recoge y como lo recoge en la vida. Nadie puede dar felicidad.

By: Mariazinha

Mariazinha — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:29:05 +0000

Comentei duas vezes no post da Lou Salomé – ontem e hoje- e meus comentários não aparecem…
Vc separou os comentários em português dos demais?

Bjo, até mais.

By: Santosh Kalwar

Santosh Kalwar — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:11:57 +0000

Dear Paulo,

-Joy is just joy not like sex. You can get joy from just watching the sunlight or moonlight or any light.

-Sex has beginning and an end but sex is an addiction which keeps on coming back and forth.

By: Tarek

Tarek — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:21:54 +0000

Hrmmmm,
I don’t know what to think about these kinds of “proofs”.
I think one cannot proof or disproof God existence by today’s science..
To put it in another way, if one wants to believe he’ll see in this and similar video, discussions, etc.. a proof.
On the other hand, if one does not want to believe he can bring also “scientific facts” that disproof the existence of God..
“Mind have thousand eyes, heart but one”
Love,
Tarek

By: marie-christine

marie-christine — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:55:48 +0000

“The black and the white are the grammar of photography whilst the colour remains the subject above all.
The light and the shadow (the darkness) represent the states of the soul. They capture the time of the day, a temporal frame of a souvenir. Besides, I was also told that a new born only sees in black and white : could this explain the profound nostalgia to love what we have seen the first time?”

Christian Coigny, photographer

By: Magalena Sztuba

Magalena Sztuba — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:43:24 +0000

ecstasy and agony ..that is what Michaelangelo thought of his talent it brought him both sometimes at the same time… And I agree with You Mr. Paulo I don’t want happiness cause it’s a flat feeling …I want joy and I want to feel … so carpe diem…

By: J

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:49:58 +0000

paulo, love is happiness is joy. true love, that is; the unconditional kinds. if you feel anything other than ultimate bliss, in love, then there’s a good chance that that is not true love. it could be anything ranging from an obsession, a desire, or maybe even a temporary liking. sadly though you can’t look for love, it finds you, unawares .. :)

By: Olta Ana

Olta Ana — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:08:04 +0000

Joy is great, but it might be not enough or it might be too much. A great feeling which fills the soul and impacts our heart. Can you imagine? Die of joy!
I love my cousin’s expression : “To faint because of pleasure!”
Maybe the author has meant more than one side of sex when referring to Joy similar to sex. I think it would be fear enough.
Life has the mother’s face so there is this constant fight, and that is where it stands its beauty. A beauty a bit hard to understand just like that, but the golden middle makes that even greater.
Weird but I can’t imagine my life only feeling Joy, even though I don’t like pain and suffering, and when I think of that I feel happy (even though afraid too).
Often we like to think that pain is there to give us lessons, but I am thinking that unhappy moments aren’t supposed to be there just to give us lessons.
Well that I don’t know, but I know that BLACK is what makes life interesting and it gives life to my paintings. heehe
I know that without BLACK they’d look pale and lifeless. So that teaches me something.
Joy is like sex. Glad to be so than!
Happiness meaning Joy??? I’d like to think that it is the first one leading to the other. Sometimes even bitter tears can bring happiness…
Don’t have enough light on this right now, but for the moment this is what I think.

Love
Olta

By: Olta Ana

Olta Ana — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:28:39 +0000

Agree! I need to find that book again and the Alchemist too.
I love those two books.

Love Olta

By: katie

katie — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:12:55 +0000

sorry, thelma …
I don’t believe in this video-series.
- I really cannot see the fibonacci series on all those examples … but the spirals are gorgeous, indeed :o)
- part 4 of this video series is a kind of confusing:
why do they show first a picture of Karl Marx when talking about Darwin?
many of the examples are not based on the latest known facts …
e.g., birds are warm blooded – one knows this for a long time,
one assumes that they developed from dinosaurs today.

By: jo van roekel

jo van roekel — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:20:26 +0000

Its al about alchemie
Make everithing into gold

By: Piyush

Piyush — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:46:25 +0000

Why go in the search for anything specific – why not experience all of it. Why choose between, happiness, joy, sex, love….
why not experience what the moment brings, even if it is sometimes misery and failure…
I love movies and I do not watch only comedies and love stories – once in a while tragedies and even horror stories entertain me – why have a different attitude towards life when that is the biggest entertainment out there?

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Joy is like sex « Keithpp's Blog — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:25:25 +0000

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By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:30:46 +0000

Today I found a video from Sade, I thought it fit for the quote. Soldier of love…
Arent we like in a battlefield, fighting for love?
THe video is not available, just the one with lyrics I can share, but original with images is really great.

By: maria-dove

maria-dove — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:19:49 +0000

An ancient Greek Philosofer Epicurus, first talked about pleasures in life, emphasising their significance to human nature. Joy and pleasure is the salt of life sweetens the heart and make the life torreable.
Religion and christian tradition on the other hand trying to estamblish a more spiritual life almost banished joy and pleasures stating that doesn’t suit to a christian way of life.
Saints and monks lived deprived from both on the their quest to spiritualism.

Is it true, joy is not a virtue for the faith?
If you seek only for the joy finally you will be consumed by that, because joy is never enough, you keep wanting more and more untill you get no joy at all.
If you live without joy life will become borring, a never ending monotonus state.
On the other hand God endowed us with joy, we are destined to find joy or else he wouldn’t give us such blessing.
I wonder if moderation is the key to this, as moderation in joy means controlled joy and that is not joy enough.

I tend to think that living with joy is a decision, a way of life not an actual state, because as happiness doesn’t stay forever it comes and goes and that is the beauty of it.

Joy comperred to sex? Is definately a way of getting joy (not the only one luckily, so i think that the example wants to pinpoint that joy in any form involves at least two people you can’t be joyfull by yourself

So, in conclusion, joy ends up boosting sharing and enhancing human bonds, well i cann’t think of any other better methode for achieving that, so i say yes to joy.