What we want is not the flash of Happiness at heavy expense of future
Well-Being and Happiness, but the habit of Happiness. We want to keep
happy. We want to sacrifice, if need be, the immediate present for the
lasting future. As the author of “The Way of the Servant” says:
“_I do ask Renunciation of My children--Renunciation of the less._”
It is not every avenue to Happiness that is unpleasant at the start.
But it is quite likely that certain treatments--especially abstinence
from or moderation in various stimulants and narcotics--may be, for a
time, far from producing any Happiness.