Way To Happiness

by Fulton J. Sheen

Overview

Every human person seeks happiness, but few find it, because they have not discovered the source of all happiness: God. In the Way to Happiness, Futon Sheen reflects on the most fundamental aspects of our lives: love, politics, motherhood, work, teens, forgiveness, rest, meditation, and more.

 

In a culture stricken with anxiety, boredom, despair, and fear, Sheen desires to reignite healing, hope, and contentment in the reader. While the secular world holds the mistaken belief that hunger for infinity can be satisfied by an infinity of material things, Sheen warns that they really wish for the infinity of divine love. Addressing the philosophy of pleasure, Sheen reminds the reader of the centrality of self-discipline and detachment.

 

At the heart of Way to Happiness is heroically living out the spirit of charity: love of God and love of neighbor. To achieve a spirit of service and self-donation, a strong interior life is a perquisite. True peace is born in meditation.

 

Lastly, Sheen provides a blueprint to overcome bad habits through introspection, avoiding the occasion of sin, willing the good, and a right philosophy of life. In an age when so few people have time to make a retreat, allow the retreat master, Sheen, to take you on a spiritual journey that will spurn you on to holiness. For anyone seeking a clear path to a happy and saintly life, The Way to Happiness will be your guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505123371
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	10/04/2022
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note ix

Introduction: Plan and Purpose xiii

Happiness

1 Contentment 1

2 Humility 5

3 Egotism 9

4 Joy 13

5 Is Modern Man Far from Peace? 17

6 The Ego and the Moral Law 21

7 Detachment 25

8 Return to Nothingness 29

9 The Subterranean 33

10 The Need of Revolution 37

11 Joy from the Inside 41

12 Love Is Infinite 45

13 The Philosophy of Pleasure 49

Work

14 Work 55

15 Repose 59

16 The Idle in the Marketplace 63

Love

17 The Three Causes of Love 69

18 When Lovers Fail There Is Love 73

19 True Love 77

20 The Effects of Want of Love 81

21 The Infinite and Sex 85

22 Reflections on Love 89

23 The Mystery of Love 93

24 Love and Ecstasy 97

Children

25 Motherhood 103

26 Parents and Children 107

Youth

27 Blood, Sweat and Tears 113

28 The Teen-Agers 117

29 More about Teen-Agers 121

30 The Loves of Youth 125

Man's Goal

31 The Master Value 131

32 Wealth and Power 135

33 God Is Self-Preserving 139

Inner Peace

34 "Getting Away with It" 145

35 Inscape 149

36 The Spirit of Forgiveness 153

37 Inner Life 157

38 A Quick Psychoanalysis 161

39 Self-Discipline 165

40 Kindness 169

41 Fear and Ethics 173

42 Rest and Meditation 177

Giving

43 Better to Give Than Receive 183

44 The Problem of Giving 187

45 The Spirit of Service 191

46 How to Give 195

Fellowship

47 The Divine Psychology of Gossip 201

48 Atomic Men 205

Man

49 Progress 211

50 The Mass-Man 215

51 A Recall to the Inner Life 219

52 Sneeze Morality 223

53 What Makes Us Normal 227

54 How to Overcome Bad Habits 231

55 Readiness for Sacrifice 235

56 Does Mercy Stand Alone? 239

57 Why We Are Not Better 243

58 Revolution Starts with Man 247

59 There Is Hope 251

Prayer to Obtain a Favor Through the Intercession of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen 254