Purity and happiness are possible

Do you want to be happy? Well, apply this Beatitude to your heart. Take it to yourself. The pure in heart are the only ones who can know what it means to be supremely happy. Their hearts are pure toward God and, as a result, are pure toward their fellow mean. They are happy because in possessing him who is all and in all; they envy no one’s worldly goods. They are happy because they envy not another person’s praise or another person’s place in the sun. Because they are the enemy of no one, they regard no one as their enemy. The result is peace with God and the world. Because their sins have been freely forgiven, they freely forgive those who have wronged them. They are thus purged of contemptuous malice. But the greatest happiness that comes to the pure in the heart is not only a proper relationship with others but a sublime relationship with god. “For they shall see God.” The gates of Eden swing open once more. God and man walk together once again.