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C. S. Lewis distinguished between 'Happiness' (ordinary contentment) and 'Joy' (Sehnsucht)—a piercing, intense longing for something that cannot be possessed in this world. 'If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ' He teaches that our deepest happiness comes not from satisfaction, but from the pursuit of the divine.
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