joy
noun
1. great happiness: feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind
2. something that brings happiness: a pleasurable aspect of something or source of happiness
volution
(və-lū’shən) noun
1. A turn or twist about a center; a spiral.
2. Zoology. One of the whorls of a spiral gastropod shell.
joyvolution
1. A conscious choice to turn toward the path of happiness, especially of a spiritual nature, with every step we take in life, rather than be guided by fear, greed, conformity or expediency;
2. Using qualitative (love-based), rather than quantitative (fear-based), criteria in decision-making based on the premise that the process (i.e. the journey) is of equal or greater value than the outcome (i.e. the destination).
Joyvolution is the process of choosing ease, grace, and joy as the basis for all decisions, large and small. All that we think, say, feel and do creates our personal reality and shapes our world.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. –Kahlil Gibran
The sum total of all the little things we do adds up in a big way, so we ask that you make a conscious choice to use your heart and Spirit to guide you. Trust in your spirit and in your heart, which are ruled only by love and you will see that you have the power to add to the sum total of happiness, joy and well-being for yourself, your loved ones, and for the world at large.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. –Kahlil Gibran
