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The Meaning of Happiness Book Description: “People think that they will achieve happiness by doing something or having something. Here you have Alan Watts's book that changed many things, and in this book he puts forward an interesting thesis: You can only achieve true happiness by embracing life as a whole. Watts called this “The Way of Acceptance.” Taking Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism and analytical psychology together, it tells us that happiness can be achieved by accepting both the external world around us and our inner world, that is, our unconscious, with all our irrational desires that remain beyond the awareness of our ego. .” -- Oscar Wilde - “Physicists say that a small finger movement affects the stars. As a result of this dual emotion, you cannot distinguish between what you do to life and what life does to you; This is like the perfect dance of two dancers, without realizing who is leading the dance, as if their movements were one and the same. This is true freedom; it contains the freedom both to move and to be acted upon; action and passivity are united. This is the realization of love.”“The truth of life includes everything that is possible and there is nothing outside of that. It means unity with something that contains no contradictions, and in this sense it is the complete and absolute acceptance of life; According to its philosophical definition, it is to be one with the principle, which is the meaning, the essence, the reason for the existence of the universe. The individual in this state is very happy even though he is in conflict with evil and pain; Even though he feels human emotions of fear, anger, and love, he lives his life with integrity and understands that everything is basically acceptable. For him, in every aspect of life; There is greatness and meaning in greatness and smallness, in love and fear, in sadness and joy, in the happiness and unhappiness of the human soul.” “You only lose it when you seek it. You cannot hold on to it and you cannot get rid of it. While you cannot do any of these, it goes its own way. You remain silent and it speaks.” ; you speak and it is silent.”“Those who have it do not seek it; Those who do not have it search for it and cannot find it.” (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by Butik Publications and written by Alan Watts, is now on Books in the World.