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The Pope’s 10 Tips for a Happier Life
1. “Live and let live.”
Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar
expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”
2. “Be giving of yourself to others.”
People need to be open and generous toward others, he said, because “if you
withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant
water becomes putrid.”
3. “Proceed calmly” in life.
The pope, who used to teach high school literature, used an image from an
Argentine novel by Ricardo Guiraldes, in which the protagonist — gaucho Don
Segundo Sombra — looks back on how he lived his life.
4. A healthy sense of leisure.
The Pope said “consumerism has brought us anxiety”, and told parents to set
aside time to play with their children and turn of the TV when they sit down to
eat.
5. Sundays should be holidays.
Workers should have Sundays off because “Sunday is for family,” he said.
6. Find innovative ways to create
dignified jobs for young people. “We need to be creative with young
people. If they have no opportunities they will get into drugs” and be more
vulnerable to suicide, he said.
7. Respect and take care of nature.
Environmental degradation “is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said.
“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. Stop being negative.
“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,’” the
Pope said. “Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”
9. Don’t proselytise; respect others’
beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows
together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism,
which paralyses: ‘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 proselytising,” the Pope said.
10. Work for peace. “We are
living in a time of many wars,” he said, 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” and dynamic.
Courtesy of the Catholic News
Service.
On these Blogger pages we explore TOPICS in our desire to respond to Jesus' call to walk with Him in our world as his missionary disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring to humanity the Good News of the Father's love manifested and given in Jesus, the Divine Mercy. G.S.
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