attained; you are always restlessly sighing after what is missing.”5 Satisfaction of desires is the wrong door to knock on if we expect happiness to be waiting on the other side. Thinkers across the centuries denounced the bankruptcy of self-centered approaches to happiness. But if we suspect that theologians do not understand much of human nature and would prefer to leave the matter to psychologists, Freud himself arrived at the same conclusion as Gregory and Bernard: “The program of becoming happy,
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