Inquire to Inspire

We often confuse happiness with joy. To many; our definition of happiness and joy may seem to feel the same. They are not. Happiness is an emotion based upon a momentary experience or even thought which is ever fleeting. Joyfulness is a condition of the spirit. It is never fleeting. To elaborate: Through life experience both are necessary. Your platform should be of joy and your forum of happiness. They must coexist. We are born with joy. Our joy gets lost within the confusion of happiness. So why must our forum be happiness? The reason is that we have become older and jaded. So we must utilize the momentary want of the emotion happiness to bring us back to the constant need of the everlasting condition of joy. And as we are our brother's keeper; if using this philosophy, creating happy moments for another allows joy to once again be our true fulfillment.
When stating an inspirational quote of your own or of another, think of this. There's no negative connotation to a truthful quote that reaches absolution. By example: Taylor Swift stated "haters gonna hate" the opposite of this is "lovers gonna love" though this quip that reached billions of people within 5 minutes is of ignorance and selfishness based upon her own circumstance. A blessed life that is dramatized and directed toward the new phrase twitter trolls. On an added note I remember seeing this statement on bumper stickers and t shirts 35 years ago. It is momentary and applies only to her at that time and is self serving. Albert Einstein stated this quote: "A life lived for others is the only life worth living." The opposition 'a life lived for oneself is the only life worth living' making Albert's statement universal. It was not made based on unhappiness or doubt. It was based upon joyfulness and faith. So please when stating inspirational quotes make sure the philosophy behind it is a true understanding of human nature, human need, and human suffering. You must empathize when inspiring. Meaning to suffer along with. We all handle our circumstance differently. How to be vague with specificity. When trying to inspire your words must resonate through all people in all circumstance. Your understanding must be greater than that of your own situation. I have told my wife and others this statement often. If a few words and/or a hug solves your problems then you have none. But we must still do this. In one of my quotes, your words and your actions are only as good as the heart behind them. Many times, too often we speak and we do not act. So if you are not self serving and you are truly trying to inspire; understanding that many people are going through horrible circumstance that we know nothing of and could not possibly understand, then if a person does not agree or the inspiration does not resonate and speaks this to the person who wrote the quip, and you receive this with empathy, sympathy, compassion, then that is truly inspiring. When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really want to know? I will use social media as an example. Social media is a representation of ourself in another form. Many do not favorite or retweet, like or share. I have spoken of this before. Usually comedically. If you are one of these people that does not do these things. Then you are doing all the talking and none of the listening. My advice, you can not learn anything if you do not stop talking and start listening. And you certainly will learn nothing about another person. So if you spend your time throwing out statements, philosophy, inspirational quotes, what could you possibly know when you know nothing of the person you are speaking them to. And lastly, I state this: We often state that social media is different than real life. That it is not personal. Then I ask you this, why are there over two thirds of the world population using twitter and facebook? If your life is so complete, and you could live without it, then why be on it? If you had such an incredible platform using your daily life ad your forum to inspire, then why does someone feel the need to inspire on twitter and facebook. So getting down to the brasstax. If you are unwilling to communicate with your friends on social media, unwilling to share and care, how does this reflect in your own life outside of social media? How can you inspire when you're not even willing to inquire. The old adage listen and learn, well I say listen and love. Start asking questions of people. Get to know them. The best way to inspire is to take the time to understand another person.  Two of the greatest statements by the greatest man are continuously over looked. As we regulate them through our own rules. Thou shall not Judge. Love one another as I have loved you. Do this and your words will truly inspire. And though not quite as great of a statement. Stop self promoting. I don't care what you do, I care who you are. I do care, however what you do for others and what you are for yourself. So I say this, the invention of inspiration is not just of your own. It is a creation manifested through you. Simply through divine intervention. If we are going through troubled times, how do we inspire? If we are truly receiving immense blessings, people look at that and become inspired. But as nothing happens out of God's will, your inspiration must come from the spirit. And into inspire others you must live by this. Our greater understanding is not always our understanding. It is to constitute a conduit. But there are times that it is our understanding. As I quote "I will suffer you as you will learn more from your suffering than from your blessings" and I end with this, do not mistake a man who has suffered as not being blessed. When understanding the blessings that come from sufferings;  suffering will end. And blessings for others will begin. And if my word is not good enough, or my example then the application of this knowledge comes from Jesus. Sufferings and blessings. Happiness and joy. Coexistence. Have perspective, balance, listen to the person who knows what you don't. Discernment will decide if this is true, so how do you know what you don't know?  By knowing what you do.  And how do you now know what you know? By learning what you didn't. Take care.











On a personal note: Why music resonates with me; though it should only take you about five minutes to read my post, if you carefully listen to the words in this song, which is also five minutes, you can now understand why music is an absolute. And if you understand this, you possibly could be on the right path.
Joshua Jet Vaughan