Celebration
People who want to pursue joy need to practice the discipline of celebration.
We often think of discipline as the abstinence of pleasurable things. True celebration is the inverse of hedonism. Hedonism is the demand for more and more pleasure for personal gratification. It follows the law of diminishing returns, what brought joy, yesterday, no longer does today. Our capacity for joy diminishes. Celebration is not like that. In celebration we take delight, today, in something we didn't notice yesterday. When we celebrate, we see and feel the goodness in the simplest gifts of God.
The Life You Always Wanted
John Ortberg
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