The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy.
On the other hand, von Hugel wrote \'Religion has never made me happy;it\'s no use shutting your eyes to the fact that the deeper you go, the more alone you will find yourself\' This small masterpiece by the late Fr Herbert McCabe of the Dominican order steers a steady courss.
This sounds extremely glib as happiness in the popular imagination is a feeling and in the words of the song \'the greatest gift that we possess\'.
The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy