Yes Vimal, nothing wrong in celebrating, no need to throw out the baby with the bath water. It feeds into the celebration of life itself, intense gratitude at endless experience, the mystery unfolding before us, the surrender into infinite possibility. I note a redundant echo from my days as a 'catholic devotee', pulled up the aisle by the ear by mother to be offered as the new altar server to the priest.There were plenty of distortions surrounding celebration and pleasure there. The church seemed to dictate the rightness of emotion on its own terms, applying rectitude and control on the freedom of expression. But when the soul has achieved something aligned, completed a task, then celebration can be of order. This feeds into the subtlety of where the celebration becomes distorted, when one crosses the line and gets carried away as you put it. Whats lovely about this enquiry is that it's breathing life into my level of self awareness. That little 'grey area', ( pun intended) is now more visible. The extra slice of bread, that 2nd cup of coffee, that bluster in conversation when silence would have served better... suddenly a new level of self enquiry and observation is activated. I fully identify with Richard's observation about daily tasks becoming joyless. I'm not sure I fully understand what he means by connecting with emotional joy and bringing that into the field. I find that when I have no expectation, of outcome, of the time factor, when I don't line up tasks and think about the next ones, when I simply and quietly get about my business, that I engage in a flow where tasks are efficiently completed. The feeling in performing those tasks, washing up, cleaning, is one of neutrality, absorbed in the task in a way that is satisfying and balanced. The surge of fulfilment comes from observing the completed task. For me, being a bit of an over thinker probably provides amplifies grey interference, more opportunity to manipulate reactive emotion.

Andy