Gordon Merrick

"The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy. 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'. 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 between these two extremes. We feels instinctively that human beings are designed to enjoy themselves and to be happy and yet we are told that suffering is good for the soul. But in the Catholic tradition the true object of human existence is the vision of God and nothing less than this will ever make us truly happy. But Fr McCabe explores much deeper issues. Is Happiness a pleasure or a pain? You hardly know. Certainly it is not a comfort for comfort spells seciurity and hapiness can take you out of yourself to a degree where all secutiry is left behind. Behind a feeling of exultation, you can sense the flame of incandescent terror. This short book is entirely original and will further enhance McCabe's posthumous reputation."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

They were the fabulous coslings of St Tropez: dapper American expatriate Stuart Cosling; his ravishing French wife, Helene; and their stunningly handsome son, Robbie. To his parents Robbie was still a boy – until on a cruise of the Greek islands, he discovered the pleasures of manhood with a deckhand on his father’s yacht.

Synopsis - Meet Walter Makin, boy wonder of Broadway and Father of the Year. Living what appears to be an idyllic life with his wife, Clara, and their two sons. Walter has everything a man could want – except another man. Follow Walter on his path of self discovery in An Idol For Others.