[joe-frank-list] 'know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness; once you make this all-important discovery you must embrace joy as a moral obligation' Thus does Jack Kornfield quote Andre Gide In 'The nature of

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things' (re-used in 'Karma part 2').
	A French Redditor tipped me to the source, 'Les nouvelles
nourritures terrestres', available at
https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/html/gide_nouvelles_nourritures_terrestres.html
	The original is, 'Il m'a depuis longtemps paru que la joie
etait plus rare, plus difficile et plus belle que la tristesse. Et
quand j'eus fait cette decouverte, la plus importante sans doute qui
se puisse faire durant cette vie, la joie devint pour moi non
seulement (ce qu'elle etait) un besoin naturel - mais bien encore une
obligation morale.' [diacritical marks removed]
	Google translates it to, 'It has long seemed to me that joy is
rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. And when I had
made this discovery, arguably the most important that could be made in
this lifetime, joy became for me not only (what it was) a natural need
- but a moral obligation as well.'

russell bell