Choosing Happiness Working Within edition by Francisco Ugarte Religion Spirituality eBooks
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St. Josemaría once wrote, “Our Lord does not expect us to be unhappy in our life on earth and await a reward only in the next life. God wants us to be happy on earth too, but with a desire for the other, total happiness that only he can give.”
Our lives are full of highs and lows, successes and struggles, joys and sorrows. We are called to live with a happy heart alongside it all. But it is not enough to want to be happy we must learn to be. Fr. Francisco will help you to discover happiness regardless of life’s circumstances, by uniting your heart with the heart of God.
In this book, you will be given the knowledge and the tools to embrace and live out an all-encompassing happiness —a daily fulfillment— that ensures joy now as well as in the afterlife.
Choosing Happiness Working Within edition by Francisco Ugarte Religion Spirituality eBooks
On an important topic the author manages to provide sensible advice supported by engaging quotes. The book is well written and the translation seems adequate. Highly recommended to anyone who has to deal with suffering.Product details
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Choosing Happiness Working Within edition by Francisco Ugarte Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
This is an excellent, though short philosophical (primarily) treatise on "choosing happiness," and why it is more perhaps determined by the will than it is something that is dependent on situations. Ugarte points out that there are difficulties with both a classic and contemporary approach to happiness. The classical approach is really abstract and difficult to identify with and the contemporary approach of "formulas," because they lack content. Rather, "its a matter of looking inside ourselves and at our truest, deepest needs, choosing to be happy in this life and the next by identifying and seeking those sources of happiness which meet and match authentic human needs." It's not enough to desire to be happy but rather we have to learn how to be happy. We have to determine where it is to be found, to learn to avoid the obstacles (especially spiritual and psychological ones). We have to recognize and cultivate attitudes which lead to happiness and take responsibility for our own happiness. Ugarte states that there is a different between pleasure and joy, and basically that pleasure is something passing where joy can be found in the course of our ordinary and mundane life. We of course, have to rise above difficult and painful situations so that they are integrated into the meaning of life itself and do not destroy happiness. As Victor Fankl asserted, "If pleasure was really the meaning of life, one would have to come to the conclusion that life really lacks any meaning." The tragedy of the human person is "not tha of being able to find happiness, but of seeking it where it is not." And of course, we find this happiness in God. God alone has placed this desire for happiness in the human heart as he alone can fulfill it. Primarily, the path of happiness is within us, it is something we have to take responsibility for and pursue it. He quotes an interesting study which states "married people tend to be happier than those who are single, people who increase their income over a ten-year period are not happier that those who do not increase it, and believers with a spiritual commitment are happier than the indifferent, and happiness increases in parallel one's religious practice. He reviews the different decisions that we need to take to pursue and active happiness. According to various writers, "happy people are happy when they carry out the duties that habitually occupy their lives work, family life, their relationship with God, social relationships and friendships, study and formation, sports and other recreational activities." He then discusses at length interior obstacles su as resentment and envy and the TRUE definition of optimism, not just a sugar coated self-help mask. He even speaks about finding happiness through finding meaning in suffering when it comes our way. It is one of the most articulate and succinct descriptions of this I have seen. He ends the book by giving a one page summation of the features of a mature personality. This is truly an excellent short treatise that I believe I will recommend to others who are seeking to discover happiness in their own lives as well as dealing with interior obstacles and utilizing tools for happiness.
When reading books in translation, at times there is a feeling of things being slightly off. There was no sense of that when I read this book. In fact I have already recommended it to a few friends and from their feedback and my own reading I can state that this is a wonderful book. This English edition of this book is a great tool for Christians looking to grow in part of our fundamental call as followers of Christ. to live happiness, to live joy and to do so by working internally.
In the introduction to this book it states
"In the literature about happiness, which is surprisingly scarce for a subject of such importance, we tend to find two approaches the classic and the contemporary. The classic approach, which explains the nature of happiness philosophically, may seem rather abstract to the modern reader, who seeks practical solutions relating to everyday life. The contemporary approach, however, is often reduced to "formulas" for making us happy, formulas that don't solve the basic problem because they lack content.
The purpose of this book is to delve more deeply into the substance of happiness, to reveal the way to be happy in daily life, and to connect this daily joy with the infinite happiness of the next life. As the title Choosing Happiness Working Within suggests, it's a matter of looking inside ourselves and at our truest, deepest needs, choosing to be happy in this life and the next by identifying and seeking those sources of happiness which meet and match authentic human needs."
Then the book goes on to examine what is true happiness, what are some barriers to happiness and gives many examples of happiness. And even what many falsely assume is happiness. The sections in this book are
INTRODUCTION
1. I WANT TO BE HAPPY!
The Natural Inclination toward Happiness
Pleasure, Joy, and Happiness
A Difficult Conquest
Is Happiness for This Life or the Next?
2. WHERE IS HAPPINESS FOUND?
The Possession of Material Goods
An Interior Task
Dependence on Choice
The Present and the Ordinary
3. RESENTMENT AND ENVY
The Poison of Resentment
The Remedy of Forgiveness
The Problem of Envy
Solutions to Envy
4. OPTIMISM LEADS TO HAPPINESS
What Studies Reveal
Naïve, Misguided, or Enthusiastic "Optimism"
The Threat of Pessimism
The Nature of Optimism
Keys to Optimism
5. CAN SUFFERING BRING HAPPINESS?
Suffering and Evil
The Process of Suffering
The Meaning of Suffering
The Human Value of Suffering
The Spiritual Value of Suffering
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX FEATURES OF A MATURE PERSONALITY
WORKS CITED
Francisco states "The path to happiness seems to be progressive in the sense that we can never say, while traveling it, that we have reached the goal. We can always be happier. And being happy is equivalent to having "a successful life," as various contemporary authors have rightly noted;6 the subjective consequence of happiness is a sensation of permanent peace, which can be distinguished from simple pleasure and also from joy." But that does not mean we should stop striving for it. The author makes big distinctions between, joy, pleasure and happiness. The way the distinction between these three is described is "The three distinctions described here correspond to a state of being that we often colloquially refer to as happiness. We say that someone is happy when we are actually referring to the immediate result of a specific pleasant stimulus, such as alcohol; we say someone is happy when a life event produces a perception of more stable happiness, such as attaining a goal. The latter is more properly identified with joy; we can say that we are joyful for having achieved what we have intentionally worked toward. It is one's permanent situation, one that no longer depends on particular circumstances, that constitutes happiness." And from that conclusion then goes on to highlight how we can work towards true happiness.
"If happiness occurs in the interior of a human and if that is where we must work to obtain it, it follows that our happiness depends on ourselves. Some who are not happy blame their unhappiness on another person-a husband, a mother-in-law, an associate at work-or on external circumstances, such as the economic situation, sickness, old age, the problems of the country, and so on. This makes it appear that to obtain happiness, we first must solve all of those difficulties, which may lead us to conclude that happiness is utopia and it is better to give up on it."
Francisco provides a list of what we should choose to truly choose happiness.
1)Choose attitudes that favor happiness.
2)Watch our reactions.
3)Avoid egocentric orientation.
4)Orient our lives toward gratifications rather than sensible pleasures.
5)We, ourselves, have to make the decision.
There are a number of other great lists in this book The Process of Suffering, The Human Value of Suffering, The Spiritual Value of Suffering, the appendix Features of a Mature Personality and more. I have copied out a few of these lists to reread each day to help solidify the teachings of this book.
This book was so go that I have added a few others, that are available in English, by Francisco Ugarte to my to be read list. This book was an excellent read and I can endorse heartily it to you. I cannot strongly enough recommend this book to you. Please read it and share it with others, for your own growth in true happiness and theirs.
On an important topic the author manages to provide sensible advice supported by engaging quotes. The book is well written and the translation seems adequate. Highly recommended to anyone who has to deal with suffering.
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