The Path of Delight

Questions

1. What do you know now about delight that you didn’t know when you were younger?

2. Who taught you the most about cultivating delight?

3. How does your delight differ from your parent’s delight?

4. What is the difference between joy and delight? And what two stories from your life serve as examples?

5. Do you have a story you delight in telling over and over again? (Maybe that you tell so much that your family rolls their eyes when you begin telling it again.) What role do you think these frequently told tales play in our lives? What role have they played for you? And what gift have they given you?

6. Whose ability to be delighted do you envy?

7. The poet, Khalil Gibran, claims that the earth delights in us. Have you ever experienced the world delighting in you? 

8. When was the last time you told your partner that they delight you?

9. At this stage of your life, which do you long for the most: delight, joy or happiness?

10. Has delight ever been a form of resistance for you?

11. Are delight and divinity intertwined? Is delight somehow a doorway into the holy? If so, what life experience of yours convinced you of that?