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Author - Josef Pieper
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happiness
Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary....
love
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which....
gratitude
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling....
contemplation
Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly....
soul
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty....
love
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent....
Happiness is essentially a gift we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
joy
The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.
everyday life
It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine....
contemplation
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony....
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