http://daily.goodcleanlove.com/making-love-sustainable/2012/06/08/learning-enjoyment/ Just another Good Clean Love Daily site Sat, 11 May 2013 06:20:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://daily.goodcleanlove.com/making-love-sustainable/2012/06/08/learning-enjoyment/#comment-3533 Cat Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:22:12 +0000 http://daily.goodcleanlove.com/making-love-sustainable/?p=7087#comment-3533 I have lately wondered why “enjoy” is so often considered a passive word. When we use “enliven,” by contrast, its very definition is understood to be “bring life to.” Not “finding the life that is already present,” but intentionally brining the life within ourselves to the experience of the moment. So, too, I think, is “enjoyment” a process less of finding-joy-in, and more of bringing-joy-to. It’s up to us to en-joy what we experience — and we can enjoy even things we dislike by simply refusing not to bring joy there (even if we also bring other things too).

]]> http://daily.goodcleanlove.com/making-love-sustainable/2012/06/08/learning-enjoyment/#comment-3531 Dennis Detweiler Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:25:09 +0000 http://daily.goodcleanlove.com/making-love-sustainable/?p=7087#comment-3531 This post saved my life. I have been getting it all wrong…chasing pleasure as the end all pursuit, only to have it descend into meaninglessness and emptiness; feeling the futility that comes with that. I think I am beginning to get a new picture of life worth living. This has changed my perspective….and my life. Thank you!

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