Alan Watts

The Meaning of Happiness

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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking second book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, and analytic psychology, Watts demonstrates that happiness comes from accepting both the outer world around us and the inner world inside us — the unconscious mind, with its irrational desires, lurking beyond the awareness of the ego. Although written early in his career, The Meaning of Happiness displays the hallmarks of his mature style: the crystal-clear writing, the homespun analogies, the dry wit, and the breadth of knowledge that made Alan Watts one of the most influential philosophers of his generation.
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282 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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    asks it to be borne in mind that every human being speaks a different language and that sometimes it seems as if words were made to conceal thoughts.
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    namely the philosophy of ancient Asia and certain aspects of modern psychology.
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    does not name a single thing which one can do in order to become happy.

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