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Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer has spent time reflecting and studying human happiness, sharing his results in both a book and in numerous seminars that he has given across the United States.
‘The reason most people are not happy,’ says Venerable Fulton Sheen, ‘is because they want to be happy in their own way and without any purchase price.’
Without true freedom, there can be no happiness, because happiness is the exercise of our freedom to love what our Beloved loves.
“For man was made an intelligent and free member of society by God who created him, but even more important, he is called as a son to commune with God and share in his happiness.” (Gaudium et Spes, No. 21)
God wants happiness on a personal basis (him and you) that does not end. That’s real happiness.
Real happiness depends on first looking for God, who alone can make us happy.
“The Beatitudes respond to the natural desire for happiness. This desire is of divine origin: God has placed it in the human heart in order to draw man to the One who alone can fulfill it.” (CCC 1718)
Are you prepared to be glad in paradise?
Hanna, the CEO of Hanna Capital, is the author of A Graduate’s Guide to Life: Three Things They Don’t Teach You in College That Could Make All the Difference.
Learn the pitfalls that can make you a grouch, and the practices that have brought joy to so many of the saints.
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