The state of perfection defined by John of the Cross: union of love with God.
This is what my soul longs for. Yet it comes with a cost. During the time of darkness for the soul, it walks through the strait and narrow path to God. The soul goes through many trials, strifes. But looking back the soul sees that time as exercise and a blessing to its very soul guiding it nearer into the arms of God, walking in unity and love in Him.
This brought me to my thought of happiness. How can you attain happiness in a fallen world without God? You cannot. Perfect happiness is not individualistic, humanistic, or found in a heaven of our own imagination such as platonic ideas or prosperity americanized ideas. These ideas make happiness the end goal, or even the means to perfect happiness. But that's not in any correlation to Christ's life on earth, as the suffering servant. Finding happiness then, becomes our idolatry. Perfect happiness is only a byproduct of unity with God, not the source. If we are living our lives so that we can find happiness or be happy, that is our failure. Our end goal should be the desire to have unity with God.
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