The aspiration to happiness is inscribed in the depths of human history, both personal and community history. The human being seeks incessantly, by different means, to be happy. However, he has not been able to reach his happiness fully. On the contrary, he has enslaved himself in his own desires, trying to fill his life with what he believes contains happiness: power, fame, pleasure and money. But, by possessing these goods, he discovers that happiness is momentary, that it leaves him a deep emptiness and a feeling that he wants to achieve "something else". Therefore, this work tries to answer this deep question. In a society where having, power and pleasure prevails, why should Christianity continue to announce that the way to reach true happiness are the Beatitudes? We all want to be happy, since happiness is the deepest tendency of the human being. Jesus shows us the effective way to conquer that happiness. That way is the Beatitudes, which is nothing other than the joy of not having, of not being able to deny oneself, and of living intensely the free love of one's neighbor. This is what leads the human being to be happy, because true happiness is found in God.
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