OLIMPO, WINONA YVONNE
B.
JULY 24, 2013; 9:30
JULY 24, 2013; 9:30
REFLECTION
PAPER
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
thy whole heart, with thy whole soul and with thy whole strength: and for love
of God thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
My understanding about St. Augustine’s
theory is all about God. And to be “godly” one should love whole heartedly, be
pure in any sense without hatred in your heart, passion in everything that you
do, being kind to yourself and to others and to love God as your one and only, “God”.
St. Augustine revolved around the
church, around his faith into God and his belief that God is the most powerful
being on earth. He is the beginning and the end, the reason everyone is alive
and the reason why we have a purpose in this earth. And our main purpose is to
know Him, worship Him, and Love Him above all things.
"It is beyond
doubt that the one cause of fear is either that we will lose what we love after
attaining it or that, despite all our hopes, we will never attain it at
all." (De div. quaest. 33).
Every Man wants to be
happy in this world. Who isn’t? St. Augustine proceeds with questioning what a
person should obtain to achieve happiness since happiness is a matter of having
what one wants in order to be happy. The main theme of Augustine’s thought on
happiness concerns our vulnerability to the material things of this world. We
are consumed by our wants than our needs, that’s why we tend to be happy when
we get these desires of the body. The money, the fame, the glory and wealth are
some of these things. But in truth, they are not everlasting. They may fade but
at the end of the day, we were never really happy, we may have been happy, but
for a short while. For one to be happy, he/she should focus on one main goal,
and that is to love God and despite everything, when one accepted God in
his/her life, one can finally find peace and when one has finally found it,
he/she can finally be happy.
