The document discusses where true happiness can be found. It argues that happiness comes from within oneself, through spiritual enlightenment and loving others selflessly, not from worldly or material things. It covers topics like faith, the power of prayer, and the importance of patience. Faith gives people courage and perseverance to overcome obstacles. Prayer's power lies not in words but in thoughts, and communal prayer is more effective when joined by a shared spiritual sentiment. Patience is a form of charity that helps one endure suffering and testings of the spirit.

1. HOW TO FACE OUR
DAY-TO-DAY
PROBLEMS?
Claudia Nunes
March 2014

2. WHAT ARE WE COVERING
TODAY?
Where is our happiness?
Faith
Power of Prayer
Patience

3. WHERE IS OUR
HAPPINESS?

4. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
Happiness
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
Matthews 5:3
Everyone searches for happiness. Everyone
seeks to find it in love.

5. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
Even when people make mistakes through
avenues such as vices or unwise decisions,
people obey the constant urge to seek for
happiness. However people have a tendency to
deviate from the correct pathway by making
mistakes in their options or decisions. Some
day people will understand that the wanted
unfound happiness in hiding from reality is a
product of our interior balance, and it can only
be found within oneself.

6. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
As we see many people spend their entire life
span in search of a love that represents their
happiness. They pursuit everywhere and spend
precious time and energy in pastime things,
changing partners, or unsignifying
relationships, constantly hiding under the
excuses of the troubled pleasures of life.
Searching in vain. Looking for without finding
it.

7. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
Happiness is not a product
that can be manufactured,
nor sold in bars.

8. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
Complete happiness cannot yet be found
in inferior worlds. However the search
for this true happiness starts and ends
within oneself. Many people waist time
searching for it elsewhere.

9. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
Spiritism brings the knowledge of God’s Laws
and invites everyone to seek self-realization
and self-reality. If the world does not offer the
resources for legitimate happiness seek for it
within oneself, winning over your most intimate
difficulties, through enlightenment and through
the dedication towards your neighbors life. It is
only when humankind learn to love without
reciprocity is that it will find real happiness.
The one who loves finds himself in the pleasure
of loving.

10. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
Some may say: “I am not happy, nobody
loves me” We answer “Love yourself and
love your neighbor without expecting
any tradeoff”, true happiness will be born
within your heart brightening up your
existence.

11. WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?
People are only happy as they love,
people only truly love as they free this
love from their narrow life limitations
and embrace our neighbors lives
respecting charity’s divine impulse.

13. FAITH

14. FAITH
My beloved children, but a short while ago I said to you that
charity without faith is not enough to maintain social order
amongst men and women and be capable of making them
happy.
Bare charity
Charity practiced with abnegation
Faith can give humanity the courage and perseverance
needed to carry the cross of terrestrial life.
God created us to be happy in eternity
Earthly life must serve solely for moral improvement
humanity is intended to be happy in this world, as long as
this was search for in goodness

15. FAITH
Confidence can give Man the capacity to carry out
material things
The mountains which faith can transport are the
difficulties, the resistances, the ill will
The prejudices, routines, materialistic interests,
selfishness, the blindness of fanaticism and the prideful
passions are but a few of the mountains which block the
way of those who work for human progress.
Robust faith gives perseverance, energy and resources
which allow us to overcome these obstacles
Faith does not even try to find the means to win because
it does not believe it can.

16. FAITH
Faith may be either blind or rationalized
Blind faith:
 Examines nothing
 Accepts without verification both truth and falsehood
 Each step may clash with evidence and reason
 Taken to the extreme it produces fanaticism
Rationalized faith:
 Based on Truth
 Guarantees the future
 What is true in obscurity is also true in light
Faith cannot be prescribed or imposed

17. FAITH
The dried up fig-tree is a symbol of
those people appearing to have a
tendency towards goodness, but who
in reality produce nothing worthwhile.
Symbolizes all those who can be useful
but are not.
Lacking in true faith, productive faith,
the kind of faith which moves the
fibers of the heart, in a word, the faith
which moves mountains.
These people are like trees covered in
leaves but without of fruits

18. FAITH
To have the courage of one's beliefs has always been
held in great esteem by mankind
Jesus said that if anyone was ashamed of His words then
He too would be ashamed of them
Doctrine we profess is nothing more than the
development and application of the Gospel teachings
We plant on Earth what will be harvested in the Spiritual
world
It is there that we will gather all the fruits of our courage
and weaknesses

19. POWER OF PRAYER

20. POWER OF PRAYER
The power of prayer lies in the thought and does not
depend on words
The place or the moment in which it is proffered
Therefore it is possible to pray in all places, at any time,
alone or with others.
The influence of a place or time is only felt according to
the circumstances which favor the meditation.
Communal prayer has a more powerful action when all
who are praying join together in a heartfelt thought and
envisage the same objective, since it is as if many
beseeched together in one voice.

21. POWER OF PRAYER
In order to be gathered together in the name of Jesus
It is indispensable to be assembled in the spiritual sense
Communion of intentions and thoughts towards
goodness
In this way Jesus will be found in your midst, that is to
say either He or those pure Spirits who are His
representatives.
Spiritism enables us to understand the way the Spirits
can be with us.
In order to achieve this it requires merely the emission of
a thought.
With these words Jesus wished to show the effect of

22. POWER OF PRAYER
The sentiment of charity (mutual sentiment of
benevolence) which animates from us is what attracts the
good spirits.
If they are animated by mutual prejudice, hate, jealousy
or envy, then the fluidic currents of their thoughts will
repel each other instead of uniting them in a harmonious
impulse of sympathy.
This does not mean to say that Jesus will not listen to
only one person.
Jesus did not say: "I will attend anyone who calls Me.“
Jesus demands the love of one's neighbor
people joined through their hearts in a sentiment of true
charity

23. PATIENCE

24. PATIENCE
What we call pain is actually an opportunity sent by God
When suffering do NOT allow yourself to be afflicted.
Being patient is a form of charity.
Everyone placed in your pathway by God acts as an
instrument for testing your patience.
Christ is our Model, he suffered far more than any of us.
By atoning for our past we fortify ourselves for the
future.
Be patient! Be Christian!

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26. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Serenidade (Serenity) – Robson Pinheiro Santos (39)
Gospel According to Spiritism – Chap 9, 11, 19, 24, 27
and 28
The Spirits Book