Discover with Charles de Foucauld how simple life can be Owning and accumulating more and more is advertised as “happiness”. But you end up running around like a donkey after a carrot, without ever achieving happiness. Many people are hungering for a new freedom and want to get off the hamster wheel of climbing “ever higher” and “ever quicker”. Success, performance, career and ownership eventually feel hollow and empty. Because even when we have everything we cannot get rid of the suspicion that we are still missing the most important thing ... The feeling of loneliness and abandonment has been discussed by many people. The limits of growth and feasibility become noticeable but also one’s own fragility. What options do we have when we feel like we are on a sinking ship? As a Christian, I try to believe in the power of love that can even change people and situations which I had almost given up on. What will strengthen me on this journey so that my hope does not abandon me? Searching for my spiritual sources takes me to Nazareth. I would like to invite my readers on a short journey to the time of Jesus - and to the places where he grew up and that shaped him. Charles de Foucauld has also searched here - his life which I examine in my book is a good example for how we can be a completely different person and find our own personal happiness when we let go of what is holding us back.
Andreas Knapp, Dr. theol., is a priest and poet, and for many years he has been head of the seminary in Freiburg. In 2000, he joined the order of the »Little Brothers of the Gospel«. Today, he lives with three brothers in a Plattenbau building in Leipzig, where he is involved with working with refugees. Andreas Knapp is the author of numerous successful books; his work has received many awards, including the renowned Herbert-Haag Prize (2018).
