Jasmine's+Jubilation

**Jasmine's Jubilation ** ====**Personal Philosophy:   **  ==== True joy is the ultimate prize in life. I desire to live a life worth living, centered around this joy. My joy will intensify as I become a light to the world and share that light, my joy, with others.

I strive to find wisdom. I seek to improve. I live to become. I hope to befriend. I dream to find joy.

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I am that I might have joy, a voice of gladness ancient as the sun and a smile with no higher aim to vindicate it. Even as the infinite host of heaven has their own goal, their own purpose, joy is my end.



Yet few are the ears that hear this wind forever blowing with its beauty and its mystery. Instead breathless darkness makes us to shudder. We grow sick at heart. But in every night come out envoys of beauty who light the universe with their admonishing smiles. It is //not// a burden to live, for I have friends, joy as a bond between us! We are proud, happy, and close, we are a lower heaven full of light and reflections. In friendship some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night to a higher life than we fell asleep from. This is the greatest of all blessings: God's most precious gift of joy! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(151, 0, 255); text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(157, 31, 224);"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(151, 0, 255); text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(157, 31, 224);"> And this joy belongs to me alone, I laugh aloud at the thought! A wild delight runs through me with its wonderment and light. A light that fills me with hope and faith and love, the candle that will light the world. //I// can light the world.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 57, 255); text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(151, 0, 255); text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(157, 31, 224);"> All that breathe will share my joy! My universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities! Tears of relief fill my eyes as this sun illuminates my eye and my heart. This gleam of lights flashes across my mind, a higher thought, a better emotion: my life is for itself sound, and sweet. I enjoy a perfect exhilaration to know what happiness is possible to me!

So I live with the highest hopes that joy abundant will set me free! When I take my chamber in the silent halls of death, with many tears my all beholding sun shall see no more. But at last I will have broken free without regret, as I down to pleasant dreams.

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