What is happiness?

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Lost_Wanderer said:
Simply put:

If you’re truly content. You’re happy. If you’re truly happy. You’re content.
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I’ve known people who seem to be truly content with their success in life, but they still wonder if they are not missing something more important than what they have. One can after all be deluded. A criminal can be content that he has amassed a fortune, yet know in his gut that he is not happy and take to drink to blind the consciousness of that fact.
 
oldcelt said:
I have been here since the death of JPII…is this not a philosophy forum? Perhaps you are only looking for opinions that coincide with your own. If so, you will find few here…a cradle Catholic, who saw another possibility.

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But you still are searching for God in a Catholic forum without acknowledging that it could be the Catholic God you left behind. The philosopher Mortimer Adler lived to be 99. All his life he was dedicated to the same search, spent much of his life studying and teaching the philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and only became a Catholic three years before he died.

I always welcome opinions that coincide with my own and also opinions that do not coincide with my own. As my signature quote from Aquinas should suggest if you have read it, we all learn from each other. That certainly does not mean that we have to agree with each other.
 
Charlemagne_III said:
But you still are searching for God in a Catholic forum without acknowledging that it could be the Catholic God you left behind. The philosopher Mortimer Adler lived to be 99. All his life he was dedicated to the same search, spent much of his life studying and teaching the philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and only became a Catholic three years before he died.

I always welcome opinions that coincide with my own and also opinions that do not coincide with my own. As my signature quote from Aquinas should suggest if you have read it, we all learn from each other. That certainly does not mean that we have to agree with each other.
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Then, who knows?
 
Here’s what happiness is really about:

When my master and teacher [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi] was in a state of d’veikut (lit. “attachment,” a trance-like state of ecstatic cleaving to G-d) he would cry out: “I want nothing at all! I don’t want Your ‘garden of eden,’ I don’t want Your ‘world to come’… I want nothing but You alone.”
– Related by Rabbi Schneur Zalman’s grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch

We should aim for nothing less.
 
Robert_Sock said:
Here’s what happiness is really about:

When my master and teacher [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi] was in a state of d’veikut (lit. “attachment,” a trance-like state of ecstatic cleaving to G-d) he would cry out: “I want nothing at all! I don’t want Your ‘garden of eden,’ I don’t want Your ‘world to come’… I want nothing but You alone.”
– Related by Rabbi Schneur Zalman’s grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch

We should aim for nothing less.
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By wanting God alone, we get happiness thrown in as a bonus! 👍
 
We find happiness in the way we make others happy.
We find peace in the way we help others to be at peace.
We find love in the way we love our neighbours.

God first, neighbours second, self third.
 
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