TOTUS TUUS, MARIA !

THE BASIC LAW OF TRUE HAPPINESS

Teaching from the Most Blessed Virgin Mary
about the ways to true happiness in this earthly life

Myriam van Nazareth

It is typical of every living being of the more developed species that, while living on earth, it should be constantly driven by the desire to find happiness ('to be happy'). Often the living being is not aware of what 'happiness' actually means. In the broad sense of the word 'happiness' for the living being may be regarded as 'a state of being in which emotional life is dominated by situations which are experienced as agreeable'. Strictly referring to the human soul, we should consider true happiness in a more specific sense. The Mistress of all souls defines true happiness as the state of inner peace which arises within the soul when the latter feels she is working towards accomplishing the actual goal of life, in other words: that she is fulfilling her mission within the framework of God’s Plan of Salvation, through actions, words, thoughts and desires which are in perfect accordance with the true sense of life for which God has sent her into the world.

This description teaches us that happiness is not something which is outside the soul, but an inner experience: the soul reaches the state we call 'happiness' because 'something' within her is constantly evaluating the way in which the soul is dealing with the situations of life. If this evaluation turns out positive, the soul feels happy. If it does not turn out undividedly positive, the soul experiences feelings varying from the vague impression that 'something in her life is not quite right' up to and including the experience of feeling downright unhappy.

This consideration contains a small problem: if one invites ten people to judge a similar situation, the odds are that one gets ten different judgments. That is why one soul is happy about a situation in life, which in another soul creates a feeling of dissatisfaction. Basically there are two reasons for this:

1) the soul’s attitude towards life: a soul that looks for happiness in worldly things, will experience 'happiness' differently from a soul that focuses on the supernatural elements of life;

2) the soul’s frame of mind and level of development: in proportion as a soul is more pure, and more developed from a spiritual point of view, she will experience certain situations in life as less or as more fulfilling than another soul.

That is exactly why the Most Blessed Virgin here distictly speaks of 'true happiness'. By true happiness She means happiness like the germ of sanctity within the very core of the soul experiences it. In countless souls the germ of sanctity is covered by a tremendous layer of worldly influences. In this case the soul is no longer able to accurately situate herself within God’s Plan of Salvation, and to recognize what role she is to play within this Plan, what is the true sense and purpose of her life on earth, and what God actually expects from her in life and in every separate situation within this life. This means that finding true happiness – happiness like it only exists in the experience of the accordance between the soul on the one hand and God’s Law on the other – is in the first place a matter of knowledge of oneself, as well as of knowledge of God’s Law.

Each form of 'happiness', which is not based on a sufficiently deep knowledge of oneself and of God’s Law, could be called 'pseudo happiness'. This is the seemingly happy frame of mind many souls experience as 'happiness' because they give priority to their worldly needs over that which the very core of every soul needs, viz. the experience of the accordance between her inner state and God’s Law. Pseudo happiness is very transitory, true happiness is not. Even though it may fluctuate in the course of a man’s life, it is imperishable, because it lives by the grace of God’s Eternal Law. God does not reject a soul that seeks for His vicinity, for the unity with His Law and the accomplishment of her missions within His Plan of Salvation.

Because every soul is looking for happiness, but only True happiness is the fulfillment of life on earth, Mary teaches the souls the Basic Law of True Happiness in twelve points. We could consider these twelve points to be the twelve keys to the gate of True Happiness.

1. Profound knowledge of oneself. A soul that does not know herself the way she actually is, will not find true happiness. The reason is simply this, that the soul can only experience a state of harmony with God’s decrees for her life if she knows exactly what her specific vocation in life is, and what luggage she exactly has or could acquire to fulfil this vocation in a satisfying way. As long as she is not aware of all this, she is merely floating about through life, and a certain dissatisfaction will easily surface.

     In order to really get to know herself, the soul must gain an insight in:

(1) her weaknesses. It takes some honesty to be willing and able to admit to oneself one’s own weaknesses. As soon as the soul, through the force of prayer and surrender to Mary, is able to recognize her weaknesses, she has got to fight them, also together with Mary. To the extent to which she succeeds in doing so, she closes the gates to the sources of those temptations she is most liable to fall prey to. The experience of true happiness has got much to do with the extent to which the soul manages to overcome her weaknesses, for only by doing so, she will be able to get the feeling she is getting ahead on the way to the Light God has destined for her.

(2) her strong points. As soon as the soul discovers her strong points, her gifts and talents, it matters to use them to the fullest as stepping stones towards success in her life’s mission. Always keep in mind that God grants you certain gifts and talents for a specific purpose. A certain talent is not necessarily an invitation to exercise an occupation in that very field; it may well be intended to enable the soul to reach a greater spiritual fruitfulness through making use of her talents in any activity in daily life. Let us never forget that to God only our spiritual development matters, not the profession we choose to exercise in this world.

(3) her worldly needs. Observe yourself carefully, and you will soon find out what it is which keeps catching your attention, what preferences you appear to have, and what forms of satisfaction you keep looking for. Subsequently, try to gradually decrease your worldly needs, by exercising yourself in giving in to them ever less, by virtue of fervent prayers to Mary. Thus you can reach the point where you begin to feel that the 'higher' levels of your being (the core of your soul, the hearth of spiritual life) gains power over the physical side of your being. Worldly needs are the chains with which your soul is chained up to the world by your own body, so that the soul is unable to take off towards true Divine Life. Aim at enabling the following order to establish itself like a natural order within your being: give Mary the opportunity to truly be your Mistress, make your soul the procurator in Mary’s service, and your body the slave to Mary and the servant of your soul. If you truly allow Mary to rule over you, She will increasingly govern you through the way you experience your needs. This may become a harsh battle, but it is worth while, for the soul that overcomes her worldly needs, overcomes herself, and is truly great and fruitful in the eyes of God.

(4) her true vocation. Mary defines a soul’s true vocation as the mission to which God calls her as her personal contribution to the accomplishment of God’s Plan of Salvation, and which she must try to complete within the period of time granted her on earth. The vocation is the whole of the specific tasks the soul has got to complete in the course of her life within the framework of God’s Plan of Salvation. The soul’s vocation is therefore a spiritual mission, which must not be confused with the soul’s career choice, for a career choice is usually connected with the activities for the performance of which she is paid to be able to make a living in the material sense. As soon as a soul discovers her true vocation, she knows exactly on which goal all her actions, works, desires and thoughts have got to be focused. Only then will she be able to actively collaborate with Divine Providence for an efficient completion of her life’s journey, without any unnecessary erring or wandering about aimlessly on the way to Eternal Life.

2. Thorough knowledge of God’s Truth. The soul can never find true happiness on ways that are not soaked in God’s only Truth, which is passed on to us in the Teachings of Jesus Christ. In these Last Times the Mistress of all souls makes this Doctrine even more accessible to the souls by teaching the Divine Doctrine and the Mysteries of true Life in the Science of Divine Life. Do not merely acquire this knowledge through ration, but rather burn it in your heart like a precious treasure which keeps multiplying itself, for only in your heart will this knowledge be able to rebuild your soul. In the Doctrine of Christ and the teachings by the Mistress of all souls the soul can find God’s own road signs to the gate of true happiness. Do not disdain these graces.

3. Dealing with one’s past. Every soul inevitably carries her life’s history with her, for all her life. Although, in principle, our mind is able to retain everything, only a small part of all details of our life’s history appear permanently accessible to our consciousness, so that, actually, we seem to forget the larger part of our experiences very soon. This is an expression of Divine Intelligence. If the soul should constantly keep in mind all the details of her entire path of life, living in the present would become impossible, and negative experiences would considerably hamper the soul’s take-off to God. It is necessary that the soul should be able and willing to forget. The course of a soul’s life on earth is a chain consisting of billions of links (each experience of impression, even the smallest or the most brief, being a link). All these links together constitute the way the journey of your life looks like. Yet the important thing are not the separate links, but the general course of the chain: at what goal is it geared, and how does it run towards this goal? Every soul is to a certain extent mortgaged by her past, because the journey of each life automatically runs through a wilderness of worldly events, and this wilderness is stained by countless elements of darkness. How is the soul to deal with all this to lead a fruitful life nevertheless?

In the book The Celestial Wedding (by Myriam van Nazareth, not yet translated into English) Mary labels the past as "an uncovered cheque with a bank which no longer exists", in other words: the soul can not buy anything with it. Its only use lies in providing material for consecration to Mary: She has the power to use every detail as raw material having the potential of being converted into graces. Every past, whatever it may look like, can even later still be made fruitful. Thank God for your past, however heavy it may have been, for you can even now still give it the full value God intended it to have. These are the five steps towards making your past fruitful, even today:

(1) speak an in-depth life’s confession. Very helpful in doing this, is the book Spring Blossoms on the Tree of Life (by Myriam van Nazareth, not yet translated into English), which may enable you to examine yourself as to what extent you are actually living the virtues and the path towards sanctity in accordance with God’s dispositions. Not without a reason, in that book the virtues are called the 'building bricks of happiness and of peace at heart'. A thorough life’s confession can free your heart and soul from a heavy burden, which may get in the way of true happiness.

(2) make amends for your mistakes. Pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance and inspiration in order to remember the mistakes you have made and that keep oppressing your soul like unsolved ballast. Subsequently pray for possible ways to make up for them. In many cases this making up can be done secretly, without actually speaking to people about it. Forgiving and reconciling, for instance, often best start with you, to be answered at some point by the other side after fervent prayers and sacrifices on your part.

(3) consecrate your past to Mary. By doing so, every detail gets its full sense within God’s Plan of Salvation. Never forget the only use of a man’s life is this: that it should contribute to the accomplishment of God’s great Plan with all souls of all times. Ask Mary She might walk the entire path of your life, from the present moment onward back to the hour of your birth, and that She might replace all ill weeds She encounters by flowers. Concretely this means, that Mary encloses in Her Heart every moment of your life not well spent, in order to clothe it there with Her perfect Love, so that, at the hour of your death, in the eyes of God this moment will look much better and purer.

(4) let go of your past. Remember the statement about the uncovered cheque. As soon as you have consecrated your past to Mary, She rules over it. Consider all your memories to be objects you have buried in the soil of Mary’s Heart. Consider each moment in which you go back to a memory, to be tantamount to breaking into Mary’s property. It is quite all right to think about pleasant moments every now and then, by way of psyching yourself up to cope with the difficulties of the present, provided you do not get 'addicted to' those memories, meaning: provided they do not rob your present of its fruitfulness (because dwelling upon memories for too long, means a standstill for the soul on the path of life). The negative effects of the less pleasant things can be made ineffective by sacrificing them as sufferings and sorrows, in unity with Jesus and Mary, and subsequently not falling back on them again.

(5) sincerely forgive your fellow man. Often the past weighs heavily upon the soul because a shadow of conflicts or mental and emotional injuries lies over it. Learn how to sincerely forgive your 'debtors', for resentment, hate and irreconcilability maintain the power of darkness over your life and your soul, and in the darkness a soul can not find true happiness. The soul lives by the Light God wants to infuse into her with the intention that it may pervade every building stone of Divine Life within the soul.

4. Do not constantly ask 'why' or 'how'. Man usually wonders about the events on the path of his life, 'why' they happen. He asks himself this question regarding both the past and the present. The soul must bear in mind that all things which happen in her life, have got their places somewhere within God’s Plan of Salvation. Every detail of your life plays a part within this Plan. Therefore, just learn to accept what happens, be aware that everything has been decreed by God’s Wisdom for your eternal well-being, submit to the things that are expected from you, and make the best of them – always with a view to your own salvation and to the salvation of other souls. Let it be sufficient to know that Mary can use every detail for the accomplishment of God’s Plan with the world, provided you consecrate it to Her in surrender and obedience. Do not constantly try to 'handle' everything yourself. Be convinced, and have blind faith, that everything in your life has got its meaning within God’s great Plan.

As to the future: Do not constantly ask yourself the question, 'how' this or that should happen or be brought about. Let Mary use your hands, your mind, your heart and your mouth. She will work through you with the inspirations and the fuel of the Holy Spirit. Only one thing is expected from you: have blind faith in Divine Providence.

Your past and present acquire their full meaning as soon as you manage to sincerely and cordially say to God, through Mary: "I accept everything because it has come to me from Your hands. I trust in God’s Wisdom, which has a Plan with all of this, and put myself at the service of the accomplishment of this Plan". Your future becomes a fruitful orchard as soon as you begin to replace the question 'how' by "I accept everything You will decide for me. I trust that my feet will be moved by You according to the signposts You will plant in my heart, and I believe I will enjoy Your protection any time anywhere". Brooding and worrying are not born of Divine inspirations, they are children of darkness, which wants to rob you of true happiness.

5. Dealing with the worldly aspects of life. Many souls never find true happiness because they allow themselves to be snowed under by many worldly events. The impressions from the world are like a thick layer of earth spreading over the soul, so that the latter can hardly move or breathe. These are Mary’s four golden rules in this respect:

(1) do not be deceived by the appearance of things. I remind you of Mary’s Little Flowers nr. 8 and 9. A blinded soul can never find true happiness.

(2) do not let yourself be tempted by worldly influences. Worldly influences and impressions are devoid of Divine Life. Thereby they make the heart and mind ill, they easily discourage, they render spiritless, and they keep the soul busy with things which make her development stand still of even reverse it altogether. True sources of poison for the soul are the media (television, press): they spread the spirit of discouragement, negative thinking, judging and condemning, pessimism, and create a perception of the world and a view of life built around darkness. They present the souls with patterns of behaviour and of thinking, which in many respects are soaked in vices, and thus create an image of 'man' which deviates considerably from the image God intended for man. This is another way in which they block the road to true happiness.

(3) do not attach too much importance to the details of daily life, for they have no importance for the development of your soul if you approach them from the state of total consecration to Mary. Moreover they are manipulated to a great extent by forces that are incompatible with God. Therefore they are often not bearers of Eternal Truth. Consequently, do not dwell upon trials and burdens either, for such a frame of mind will soon make for an emotional life swamped by negative feelings. Your heart will then soon approach life like a never ending burden without the slightest spot of light. A heart that takes trials hard, commits murder against the virtue of true hope, and in many cases against the virtue of true faith as well. This double murder also precludes the blossoming of true happiness.

(4) do not give in to the fear of what people may think, in other words: attach as little importance as possible to the opinions or words people express (or might express). This attitude turns the soul into a prisoner of social rules, which are strongly manipulated by the darkness and by tradition (which is itself influenced by darkness: remember the development of society like Mary depicted it in, among others, Her teaching The Heavenly Springs – not yet translated into English).

6. Do not work for the roses of the world, but for those of Heaven. Many souls never find true happiness because their hearts are fully focused on the things of the world. Of everything that happens they measure the value for themselves according to the benefit or the damage they can expect from it from a worldly perspective. The soul that perfectly realizes she does not live for the things of the world but for those of eternity, and that all events on the path of her life are merely small intermediate steps to real Life hereafter, does not aim at obtaining worldly justice in her life. She even accepts the many moments of injustice which occur in her life. Firstly these moments are all small treasuries of eternal salvation (provided you consecrate them to Mary and bear them with abandon), and secondly you will get them amply compensated in Eternal Life, and through them you can contribute to the opening up of other souls. The more you live merely for the things of eternity, the more you will experience Heavenly assistance in your worldly needs. This assistance can manifest itself as a miraculous guidance, strength in coping with your trials, unexpected solutions to your problems, and the experience of true happiness through an increased inner peace and quiet.

The soul that does not make the spiritual interests the centre of her life, and does not constantly keep her heart geared to the interests of Eternal Life, can never find the way to a joyful heart. It should be noted in this respect, that many souls display a superficial front of joyfulness, which nevertheless hides a great many deep-rooted sources of dissatisfaction. These souls do not find true happiness, as they constantly live in an atmosphere of tension between their superficial appearance on the one hand, and their hidden conflicts on the other. The danger is immanent, that these conflicts express themselves in many concealed vices.

7. Have blind faith in the power of the cross. Jesus died on the Cross for our true happiness, both in Eternal Life and while still on earth. The Crucified One has purchased for us the grace that we might be able to follow Him in everything, also on the way of the cross consisting of our own trials, because our trials are the ransom we can use to open up the vast treasure of our Redemption within ourselves. Jesus’ Sufferings and Death on the Cross, together with the Sorrows of Mary, constitute the seed on which the soul is able to blossom towards the summit of that for which God has equipped her. In order to allow this seed to really germinate and sprout, we must link our own crosses and sorrows with those of the Redeemer and the Coredemptrix, or more accurately put: unite them with the latter, so that they may bear within themselves the full power of bloom inherent to Divine Life. Believe in this power, and the Cross will chase all darkness from your life and your heart.

8. Perfection of true Love. All writings the Mistress of all souls sows into the souls within the framework of the Science of Divine Life, are about true Love. How could they not be, having regard to the fact Love is the essence of Divine Life? However, Mary also wishes to draw our attention to the following three points:

(1) Do not underestimate the purifying and life-bringing effect of Love. Every simple act or word which bears true Love lifts up your own soul: giving one’s fellow person a sincere kiss, hugging an animal, feeding an animal in the open air, speaking some encouraging words to a soul that is going through a rough patch...

(2) True Love actually consists of all efforts made with a view to promoting the happiness of every fellow creature. Try to gear your behaviour as much as you can to the well-being of each human being and each animal that crosses the path of your life. Even a simple action such as feeding an animal in the open air in winter, taking care of a wounded animal, speaking a tender word to a human being or an animal, sets your own heart free and enhances the experience of true happiness, for even while taking care of a tiny little bird the God of Love embraces you.

(3) True Love also means: learning how to serve. Put your entire being and your entire life at the service of God, of Mary, and of God in every fellow man and even in every animal. Give your tiny 'me' to God, and He will give Himself to you in exchange, in His all-embracing magnitude. Truly serving, is denying oneself for the benefit of the other. There is no greater expression of Love than this. In no other way will the capital of your life yield more interest than by leading a life of full service to God and to every creature. That is why deeply experienced total consecration is the greatest act of Love, for consecration to Mary is a life of service and self-denial. Actually total consecration means: allowing Mary to set fire to the entire path of your life and to your entire being, and then burn as fuel for God’s Plan of Salvation. The flame in this fire is Love.

9. Communication with God. God is not a dead 'thing', but the indestructible, immortal Embodiment of all Life, Source and Destination of all living things that spring from Him. True happiness resides in a constant communication with Him, for this is the only way for the soul to keep her access gate open for the influx of the Light as bearer of Divine Life. The soul that breaks off all communication with God, withers like a flower which does not get any sunlight, nor water nor fresh air. Communicating with God is done through prayer, by allowing God and Mary to partake in everything in your life, by speaking to Him through the language of love while dealing tenderly, caringly and gently with every fellow creature (human and animal), by opening up your heart completely while strolling through nature and admiring creation, etcetera. A special form of contact with God is hidden in the following key:

10. Receiving the Sacraments. Mary once referred to the Sacraments as "points of contact between Heaven and earth, in which God meets the soul". They constitute major elements of the heritage Jesus left to the only true Church of God: the Roman Catholic Church. It is actually quite self-evident why receiving the Sacraments is one of the twelve keys to the gate of true happiness: true happiness only lives in God’s immediate vicinity. Of the seven Sacraments usually only two can be received on a regular basis: Confession and Communion.

  • Sacramental Confession is the opportunity where the soul communicates her sins, vices, mistakes, negligences, errors and aberrations to a priest, who on this occasion truly serves as a representative of the Merciful God, and does so as if she were speaking to God directly, in a state of sincere repentance over her aberrations from God’s Law, because these aberrations have loaded her with a burden of guilt towards God’s Law. A valid Confession is a purification of the conscience, which is laden with the conscious and unconscious knowledge of all violations committed by the soul towards God’s Law. In Storm Writing nr. 47 Mary defined our conscience as "the system which enables man to repent his violations towards God’s Laws, to acquire a desire to make up for these violations (penitence), and to henceforth avoid these violations". A burdened conscience is like ballast for the soul, preventing her from functioning normally and completing her way to God (sanctification) efficiently and fruitfully. That is why a burdened conscience may considerably impede the experience of true happiness. A fruitful Confession can be compared with the soul being washed by the Holy Spirit, whereupon she is clothed by the Merciful God in a robe of new hope and strength.

  • Holy Communion: The concrete accomplishment of Jesus’ promise that He would be with the souls for all times. As always, the proviso is the correct use of the soul’s free will: the soul must want Jesus’ Presence. In the Sacrament of Holy Communion Jesus pays a solemn visit to the soul that sincerely believes in His Divinity, in the Works He accomplished on earth as the God-Man (in the first place, the Mystery of Redemption on the basis of His Sufferings, Death on the Cross, and Resurrection), and in the Divine origin of the one and only Church of Christ, the Roman-Catholic Church. This faith is strictly necessary, because in the soul it works like a key that opens her to the wonders Jesus desires to work within the soul through Holy Communion (a sealing of the New Covenant of Redemption, a proviso for true sanctification of the soul). Also a sincere Love for God is necessary, which is tantamount to loving the Light and all of its Works, and to an intention to turn away from all darkness. Finally, a condition of true hope is necessary, i.e. the sincere conviction that, through the Sacrament, God already wants to gain the victory within the individual soul and wants to establish His Kingdom of true happiness within her. This presupposes the soul to firmly believe in transubstantiation: the fact bread and wine are transformed into Body and Blood of Jesus Christ during Holy Mass (of which the celebration is the mystical reproduction of the Mystery of Redemption), and thereby become themselves the bearers of undivided Divinity. Holy Communion can only help to unfold true happiness within the soul if it is received with the deference the soul owes to God: kneeling, onto the tongue, and from the hands of a priest. Mary emphasizes how much Heaven regrets any other way in which Holy Communion is received, on account of the lack of deference expressed by doing it in any different way, and on account of the great loss of graces inherent to a Communion which does not satisfy the three aforementioned criteria (kneeling, onto the tongue, and from the hands of a priest).

11. Attitude towards your fellow man. Every soul experiences at some time or another how the sight of certain fellow men may arouse negative feelings. The reason is, that our mind tends to associate these specific people with unpleasant experiences. The soul can only be healed from this tendency to the extent to which she succeeds in lifting her attitude towards her environment up to 'a higher level'. The soul can pray to be blessed with 'other eyes', a different way of looking at her surroundings, so that the sight of a fellow person no longer produces within her the effect of a chain linking her to worldly thoughts, feelings and memories. As soon as the soul, through prayer and longing for inner purification, manages not to regard her fellow person reminding her of negative things, as a 'guilty one', but as 'a poor misguided soul', she will thereby speed up her inner liberation. The experience of true happiness is only possible in a soul that has freed herself from any negative view as to her fellow person. By not regarding one’s fellow person as 'a guilty one' but as 'a poor misguided one', the soul may reach the point where she no longer considers the other one as the enemy, but as 'a soul that is being misled by the real enemy'. Thereby she may be able to change her attitude from protest and negative feeling and thinking towards a sincere dedication to setting this soul free. This change of attitude is a turnaround from darkness to Light. True happiness does not bloom in a soul that holds on to elements of darkness.

12. Total consecration to Mary. By surrendering totally, unconditionally and eternally to Mary, so that her entire being, everything which goes on within her and everything which emanates from her, and every detail of her life is put entirely at the disposal of the Mistress of all souls, a soul gives the supreme sense to everything in her life, including the unpleasant and the seemingly pointless elements. We could express it like this: through this attitude towards life the soul 'converts herself towards True Life'. Everything acquires matter and sense, so that also the sufferings and the so-called useless details of life can suddenly be considered to be pieces intended by God to compose the big puzzle of life, small parts without which the whole would not be complete. This conviction may bring about within the soul a tremendous purification and upliftment, for because of it she may experience a tremendous growth in the fields of love, faith and hope. A thoroughly experienced consecration to Mary also brings about an unlimited faith in the future, for the soul that has really surrendered to Mary unshakably believes in the unlimited power and Love of the Mistress of all souls.

A consecration to Mary, lived in the right way, is able to change a life thoroughly in every detail, and fill it with a completely new inner peace. In the past I repeatedly pointed out that a life at Mary’s service is a golden path to God’s Heart. She throws the seed of true happiness into the soul by the handful, if the soul wants to be fully Hers, so that this soul is opened up for a foretaste of the happiness of which word has it that the world does not know it.

Such are the makings of the way towards the gate beyond which true happiness blooms. The soul must keep in mind this one thing: happiness is not so much a matter of the course and content of life, it is mainly determined by the way the soul herself reacts to this course and this content. Some souls manage to feel sincerely happy in spite of the fact the path of their life brings them much hardship and they get to endure many burdens and much suffering. Other souls are very well-to-do and are relatively free from setbacks, and nevertheless do not find true inner peace for a single moment. The secret lies in the extent of the soul’s affinity towards the matters of eternity (God and His Mysteries, Mary as the Bridge to everything Divine, the blossoming of true Divine Life in the soul).

In conclusion I remind you of the

TWELVE KEYS TO THE GATE OF TRUE HAPPINESS:
  1. Profound knowledge of oneself
  2. Thorough knowledge of God’s Truth
  3. Dealing with one’s past
  4. Do not constantly ask 'why' or 'how'
  5. Dealing with the worldly aspects of life
  6. Do not work for the roses of the world, but for those of Heaven
  7. Have blind faith in the power of the cross
  8. Perfection of true Love
  9. Communication with God
  10. Using the Sacraments
  11. Attitude towards your fellow man
  12. Total consecration to Mary

Myriam, November 2009