On Happiness by Pierre Teilhard

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin delivered a lecture in Peking (now Beijing) about happiness on 28 December 1943. It was published as a book by the name On Happiness, and is worth a read. This book is now hard to find and hence I am sharing the text below for the curious. Note that he refers to Christianity a few times but if you replace that with whatever faith you like, the text still remains…