Joy is knowing--deep down inside--what one really needs (or wishes for), and then recognizing God's gift when it is granted!
(Some relevant quotations:)
His holiness the Christ said:
Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. (John 16:24)
And in the Holy Qur'án we read:
And also in your own selves: will ye not, then, behold the signs of God? (Qur'án 51:21)
Bahá'u'lláh has stated:
Every created thing in the whole universe is but a door leading into His knowledge, a sign of His sovereignty, a revelation of His names, a symbol of His majesty, a token of His power, a means of admittance into His straight Path….(Gleanings, p. 160)
Shoghi Effendi has contextualized our efforts for personal development with our coming responsibility for improving the morals of our fellow men:
[L]et them focus their attention, for the present, on their own selves, their own individual needs, their own personal deficiencies and weaknesses, ever mindful that every intensification of effort on their part will better equip them for the time when they will be called upon to eradicate in their turn such evil tendencies from the lives and the hearts of the entire body of their fellow-citizens. Nor must they overlook the fact that the World Order, whose basis they... are now laboring to establish, can never be reared unless and until the generality of the people to which they belong has been already purged from the divers ills, whether social or political, that now so severely afflict it.(Advent of Divine Justice, p. 20-21)
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