The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East (Authored by Alan Watts)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East Author: Alan Watts Narrator: Kern Schmidt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: August 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third 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.