Development policies...and the victory of the “Power of Joy”

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If we contemplate some of the positions that accompany every joyful event, whether sporting, artistic, or cultural, we would find some repeated hostile attempts that are formulated in poisoned ink on notebooks by theoreticians in the groups of the currents of confusion, and from the heart of the caves of activism. All of them are broadcast from opposing platforms with ideological roots that are hostile to the concept of the state and its development programs.

For example, with the start of the announcement of the “Gulf Cup” tournament, some voices rose, questioning the possibility of public turnout due to the sinful and criminal aggression by the rogue terrorist Houthi militias.

However, the effective political, security, governmental and organizational capabilities and forces have proven that the state is capable of carrying out the largest event with security and reassurance, as some matches have an audience exceeding forty thousand spectators.

Now we are at the gates of Farah’s exceptional, annual creative programs that culminate in the “Riyadh Season,” which will begin on the twenty-first of this October. It is a festival that meets people’s tastes with its integrated programs that nourish the choices of all segments of society. Young and old, with all elegance, excellence and comfort, this festival is an authentic expression of the developmental strength and determination to nourish cities with life, construction and well-being.

The community is eagerly awaiting the festival; Because it expresses a developmental climate, and every rise in any field of life necessarily means the superiority of the ideas of life over the culture of hatred and hostility, and over what contradicts what is permissible and aesthetics. The truth is that we must abandon the discourse of hostility toward life and not listen to it.

Yes, we should rejoice; This is what the wise insist.

For example, the French meditator and writer Frederic Lenoir had his experience revealed in a booklet full of experience, entitled “The Power of Joy,” which was printed in Arabic with a translation by Ayman Abdel Hadi. The author devoted an entire chapter to the meanings of “breathing joy.” Achieving states of joy, as he mentions on the first page of his introduction, is based on three foundations: attention, presence, and trust and openness of the heart.

Lenoir wonders: “Can’t we actually, through a specific psychological state, promote the emergence of true joys?!” In fact, I was able to notice that there is a psychological state, a number of attitudes, and a way of being that allows us to prepare the appropriate fertile ground to receive joy.

What distracts us from joy is lack of attention, and he says: “Attention is what connects us to the senses.” We are often occupied with thousands of worries, and thus our mind becomes suffocated, and we no longer pay attention in any way to our life. We work while thinking about something else, about dinner this evening or about the upcoming weekend. We prepare food, but our thoughts wander to the files piled up on our desk... Joy often comes from a sensory experience; If we view the landscape itself with attention to the harmony of forms, of perspective, of colours, of light, of smells, of sounds or of silence, we may be able, because nothing is guaranteed, to feel the joy overwhelm us; Because the beauty of nature affects us strongly. The greatest joys I have ever felt in my life were born in this way... My senses are awakened when I take a walk; I follow a ray of light between the tangled trees, the movement of a wave on the ocean, and a perspective that suddenly opens up to a group climbing a mountain, and it often happens to me that I listen to music while I work, or when something preoccupies me.”

The bottom line is that joy is an inherent worldly part, a partner in achieving creativity and achievements, and is beneficial to all segments of society, whatever society it is. When a person has fun, he feels his vitality in the public sphere, and this reflects positively on science and work. When the individual sees the meaning of “making what is permissible” in his reality, he feels satisfied.

We must listen to our authentic inner beings, which grew and were nurtured on the legacy of our ancestors who always lived songs, joy, joy, and spread the arts. As for the tremors in the city and the rioters, they are a voice without value. Let our societies rejoice in their good, creative programs, and know that these blessings are an essential symbol of tranquility, stability, well-being, and the establishment of prosperity.

Quoted from Asharq Al-Awsat