Top 10 Tips For Achieving Personal Happiness.

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1. “Live and let live.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others…If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”

3. “Proceed calmly [in life].”

4. “A healthy sense of leisure … Consumerism has brought us anxiety, [causing us to lose a] healthy culture of leisure.” (On this point, the pope also urged families to turn off the TV when they’re eating together.)

5. “Sunday is for family.”

6. “We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs.”

7. “[Environmental degradation] is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we’re not asking ourselves is: ‘Isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?’”

8. “Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. That means, ‘I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.’ Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”

9. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyzes: ‘I am talking with you in order to persuade you.’ No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytizing.”

10. “We are living in a time of many wars, [and] the call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet, peace is always proactive.”

 

 

Pope Francis

[God the Father]

6. “We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs.”

 

 

Pope Francis

 

Lol is this a direct quote? Drug use is the last thing old people have to fear from young people with no opportunities.

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5. “Sunday is for family
(At friendly neighborhood place of worship )

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"creativity" is "a divine word," because God told Adam to care for the earth, make it bear fruit, "be creative."

[bardegaulois]

When I first saw this, I thought it was one of those misattributed memes that seem to be cropping up all over the place, saying to myself: the Pope would never fail to mention God in his ten tips for happiness; he'd be a little more theologically fluent! He'd cite Scripture and the Fathers: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God..."; "Take up your Cross and follow me"; "Pray without ceasing"; "Our heart is restless until it rests in Thee." How can one be happy without God? These are just platitudes based on sentiment, excluding any reference to our tradition, and indeed excluding any critical thought; are you sure that someone like Oprah Winfrey or Joel Osteen didn't write this?

 

Well, it turns out I'm wrong. This is not the first time that some action or statement of Pope Francis has caused me no small amount of anxiety and self-consciousness. Am I alone in thinking that we need a little more from pontifical teaching?

[porziuncola]

When I first saw this, I thought it was one of those misattributed memes that seem to be cropping up all over the place, saying to myself: the Pope would never fail to mention God in his ten tips for happiness; he'd be a little more theologically fluent! He'd cite Scripture and the Fathers: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God..."; "Take up your Cross and follow me"; "Pray without ceasing"; "Our heart is restless until it rests in Thee." How can one be happy without God? These are just platitudes based on sentiment, excluding any reference to our tradition, and indeed excluding any critical thought; are you sure that someone like Oprah Winfrey or Joel Osteen didn't write this?

Well, it turns out I'm wrong. This is not the first time that some action or statement of Pope Francis has caused me no small amount of anxiety and self-consciousness. Am I alone in thinking that we need a little more from pontifical teaching?

Did he present this in the list form? Maybe these are all things he said, but someone else compiled the list as "ten steps for happiness". Even if he did present it as a list, it's not like it was an encyclical... Not everything he says has to be high theology. Besides, none of these oppose the idea that happiness is found with God.