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Eve Ensler Quotes about Joy

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You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

Eve Ensler
Joy, Hunger, Absence
Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.206, Macmillan

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

Eve Ensler
Joy, Soul, Incredibles

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

Eve Ensler
Cities, Giving, Joy
Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.212, Macmillan

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