Happiness
Happiness, the inner bliss that Jesus proposes to all His disciples is not a destination but a way of traveling. The happiness that Jesus proposes can be obtained by faithfully following the two procedures which were revealed in the text of the Beatitudes. First procedure: never divert God from your inner dialogue. Always keep your imagination and your spiritual eye tirelessly fixed and attached to God. Tune your inner dialogues continuously to the sound of His name, as an orchestra tunes itself to the reference note. Whatever you do and accomplish, either alone or with others, in pleasant situations or in difficult and complicated ones, always keep the intelligence of the heart and the lightness of the spirit connected to God and to His love. The first procedure is to always keep your psyche in God, this is the first great secret of happiness. The second procedure is: never, never, never lose trust in God and in His love. Never allow your inner dialogue to think, not even for an instant, that God has abandoned you, or that He is not loving you totally and boundlessly. Keep faith in God, that is, always believe, that no matter what happens, it is always in God's love. Always accept humbly and with gratitude even the dark or evil events in life, wanted by forces foreign to God, because if He allows them, it is always for a greater good and love. Our happiness depends on the choice of never thinking badly of God and His love, it is also depends on the choice of never thinking badly of others, never judging or accusing, but sowing joy and well-being whenever possible. This is the core of Jesus' Beatitudes: in order to be happy, a man must not let anything, not even poverty, injustice, oppression, hunger, fear, tears, persecution have the power to take one's inner eye away from God, to distract one's inner dialogue from God's love, to move outside of the axis of faithful trust in God.
Mary, the great mother, is the radiant example of someone who used these procedures and these secrets to be happy, and to live a healthy life in peace. Mary always maintained her inner dialogue with God and never doubted His love. She never stopped trusting her Lord, even in the most difficult and painful moments of her life. Mary never ceased to keep her spirit's eye on God and to trust in His love, even when she could have been accused of adultery and stoned. She did not doubt when she was forced to flee to Egypt to save Jesus from being killed and when, in silence, with tears in her eye and the divine child in her arms, she was moved by the laments of those mothers as Herod's soldiers ripped their children to pieces. Mary never doubted God, nor ever thought badly of Him, not even when she began to understand that the leaders of the people were plotting to accuse Jesus to put Him to death, nor when, in the days of the Cross, she heard the sweet name of her beloved Son shouted with violence and scorn by the people who wanted Him tortured and crucified. Those who want to learn the two procedures of happiness written in the Beatitudes have Mary's wonderful and powerful help.