There is nothing that makes us happy like making others happy, even with the sincere sacrifice of our personal happiness. To try to make others happy, expecting something in return, is to deny one's own happiness. The root of personal happiness lies in the ultra-personal world, which is the world of renunciation, sacrifice, altruism, love. He who takes personal happiness as the direct object of his efforts will never achieve it. Here is “renounce to possess, lose to win,” in the profound language of Jesus.
The most rewarding charity is to sow and not be interested in the harvest - so that others may reap what they have not sown. This is the purest of altruism.
This is another one of the paradoxical truths expressed in the Gospel, as well as the one who gives more, receives more! That is a reality still far from the reach of the profane man, lost in what he calls the complexities of life.
Albert Schweitzer has given up all his advantages as a scholar to plunge into Africa to relieve the pains of black populations in the village of Lambaréné in Gabon, expressing wisely that: “There are no heroes of action, but heroes of renunciation and suffering”.
However, to reach the comprehension of these truths, it does not require a superhuman effort ... it is just to know oneself, and that is the greatest goal that the human being has to reach for his self-realization, and so to taste the abundances that life and nature has to offer.
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