The Meeting Place of Deep Intentionality and Self-Forgetting

In his prose and poetry, David Whyte shares what David Brooks refers to as “emotional joy” in his book, While not necessarily unique to the Christian, this type of joy has the ability to draw us towards deeper union with the creator of joy, as for example, C.S. Lewis describes in his autobiography.

Whyte uses beautiful language to describe joy this way:

Joy is the meeting place, of deep intentionality and self-forgetting, the bodily alchemy of what lies inside us in communion with what formally seemed outside, but is now neither, but becomes a living frontier, a voice speaking…