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Delight
Give great pleasure or enjoyment
to; please highly. Be highly pleased (to do, with), take great pleasure (in). Enjoy greatly, delight in. Oxford Dictionary
Richard: Usually delight is
associated with innocence, naiveté and spontaneity. A much under-rated and rarely found quality in humans but
abundantly obvious in the actual world. This delight, together with perfection and purity, is readily apparent in the
peak experience or PCE and is increasingly experienced on the wide and wondrous path to actual freedom. Delight is,
after all, the intrinsic experience of humans when free of malice and sorrow.
As the senses are increasingly freed, a veritable smorgasbord
of sensual delight becomes readily apparent. Serendipity abounds and a fascination with life activates delight and
sensuousness as one does all one can to mimic the perfection and purity that becomes increasingly apparent all around in
the physical world. One’s mind, more and more freed of imagination and the chemical influence of instinctual passions,
is capable of great clarity and, as apperceptive awareness replaces self-centred neurosis, one knows one’s days are
numbered. One is literally and figuratively coming to one’s senses and is less as less affected by feelings and
emotions arising from the animal instinctual passions.
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By this total and sincere
dedication to what is actual, pure and perfect, one eventually abandons control, so to speak, whereby the very process
of ‘self’-immolation is set in motion – then it is not a process that one has any control over, it is happening by
itself.
From the position of
delight, one can vitalize one’s joie de vivre by the amazement at the fun of it all ... and then one can – with
sufficient abandon – become over-joyed and move into marvelling at being here and doing this business called being
alive. Then one is no longer intellectually making sense of life ... the wonder of it all drives all intellectual sense
away. Such delicious wonder fosters the innate condition of naiveté (which is the closest one can get to innocence) the
nourishing of which is essential if the charm of it all is to occur. Then, as one stares intently at the world about by
glancing lightly with caressing eyes, out of the corner of one’s eye comes – sweetly – the magical fairy-tale-like
paradise that this verdant earth actually is ... and I am the experiencing of what is happening.
But try not to possess it and make it your
own ... or else ‘twill vanish as softly as it appeared.
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