On the Seventh Day of Creation, God told Adam and Eve that He had gifted them with the ability and one-time opportunity to love the world more than any creature He had ever given life to. Five types of Essential and Attractions make up the Living Experience and leads to happiness: 1) Physical Essentials and Attractions, 2) Social Essentials and Attractions, 3) Cognitive Essentials and Attractions, and 4) Emotional Essentials and Attractions described

5) Mystical Attractions and Mystical Essentials described. Also, today, tomorrow, yesterday, and eternity - what I’ve been told to be happy in this world and what drives us mad.

Living in No Man's Land - What I want read at my funeral (by Thomas Merton From Seven Storey Mountain).

My visit to a Trappist monastery where a community is keenly aware that their Mystical Journey can only flourish if Living and Dying are integrated and equal.

What is death and what happens at the moment of death - per The Catechism of

the Roman Catholic Church. If you remember dying each day, death will lose its sting and will no longer be something to fear - sentiments from the Trappist Monks and Sogyal Rinpoche (from Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World).

The words of Norman Vincent Peale from The Positive Power of Jesus Christ - a great comfort for those who have lost an aged loved one.

Whereas Living and Dying are integrated and equal, the Earthly and Mystical Journeys are conflicting and unequal. The love of God and the love of the creature are contrary and cannot live in the same heart.

The mysteries of why God Continuously Thins His Ranks, Works in Minorities, and Chooses the Foolish of the World.

Your Earthly Journey not only consists of striving to achieve the Essentials necessary to resist death and avoid suffering but pursuing all the Attractions that you believe enable personal happiness and personal fulfillment. Your Formula for Happiness must be YOUR Formula for Happiness.

The writers of The Bhagavad Gita, Lao Tsu who gifted the world with the Tao Te Ching, and Mother Teresa in A Simple Path, as compiled by Lucinda Vardey, describe how to avoid the harmful effects of desire.

Because your Earthly Journey consists of pursuing Essentials & Attractions, life matters such as love, sex, sexuality, and marriage require consideration. Three Greek types of love are considered - Eros, Philia, and Agape.