Happiness is…

The result of a conduct guided by decency toward one’s fellows, coherence with oneself, devotion to God through the fulfillment of one’s vocation.

Father Gustavo Henrique

Intelligence and creativity, sportsmanship and tranquility in the effort to offer the best of oneself to the common good, fulfilling the purpose designated [...]

Happiness and purpose

Happiness is unattainable without a spiritual practice and a philosophy of life that implies the perception of purpose for the human condition and for the existence as a whole — call it Spirituality, Transcendentality, Divinity, or whatever one wishes.

The fact is that, for psychic reasons and even for a neurophysiological [...]

Management of oneself and one’s life

Life is what it is.

Events are never determinable, although they can be relatively manageable, according to the circumstances, potentials and resources of the people involved in them.

Not even your psyche is under your full control. Educate and discipline yourself, but it is essential that you respect, nevertheless, the evolutionary limits that you [...]

The Sacred and the pathetic

Hope is a moral duty – lucid faith constitutes its possible corollary, with the inner work of reflection, of spiritual search and devotional practices, in a systematic and tireless commitment over long periods of time…

Ordinarily, no one obtains an elementary school diploma without dedicating successive years of daily study [...]

Axis of absurdities and horrors

God Is. No definition is proper for Him-Her – any conceptualization would restrict the Absolute to the limited human gnoseological spectrum.

Nothing can be outside of the Being. Nothingness is a mere abstraction of the human mind. Even the space-time continuum, as well as the matter-energy binomial, to exist or “sprout” from “nothing”, require [...]