AC 10409 - real, long-term happiness

AC 10409 [3]
For they believe that to be exalted to dignities
and to gain wealth above others
is the very good which the Divine gives to a person,
and thus that the Divine blessing (as they call these things)
consists in these alone;
when yet such things are rather a curse
to those who love themselves and the world above all things,
for insofar as they are exalted to honors
and gain wealth by their own effort and their own skill,
so far are they uplifted in the love of self and of the world,
so that at last they place their whole hearts in these things,
and regard them as the only goods,
thus as the only satisfactions and happinesses of a person;
although these things come to an end
together with the life of a person in the world;
whereas the goods, the satisfactions, and the happiness
that are given and provided for a person by the Divine
are eternal and have no end;
and consequently these are true blessings.
What is temporary bears no ratio to what is eternal;
as what is finite in time bears no ratio to the infinite of time.
What endures to eternity, this is;
but what has an end, this relatively is not.