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The Paradox of Happiness: Finding True Joy in a World of Counterfeits is unavailable, but you can change that!

If you’re looking for happiness, forget about it. Literally. In an engaging, paradigm-shifting book, René Breuel deconstructs our consumerist models of happiness and proposes a radical, Jesus-based alternative: we don’t find happiness when we try to fulfill our desires—we find it when we stop looking for it and start focusing on serving others. By letting go, we find; by giving, we receive.

forget about it. Happiness arrives when we let it go. As a psychiatrist has expressed it, “If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat; writing a symphony; educating his son; growing double dahlias in his garden; or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”11 Happiness is not to be found because it is not an essence but a property; it is not a substance but a possible
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