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Indlæser... The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East (udgave 2018)af Alan Watts (Forfatter)
Work InformationThe Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East af Alan Watts
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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"Man does not like to admit to himself that he is afraid, for this weakens his self-esteem and shakes his faith and the security of this ego. To accept fear would be like accepting that, so he runs from it, and this is the great unhappiness."
"Only those who have sinned can understand and appreciate the bliss of redemption."
"But there is something in man which makes it exceedingly hard for him to avoid the pursuit of earthly pleasures, and this tendency religion attempts to vanquish by a strongly hostile attitude to them. Hence the general antipathy in religion to all that pertains to the senses, and especially to the most elementary and important of earthly pleasures which are to be found in the sexual functions."
"Religious people seldom understand the true function of religion and still waste thought and energy in a war with science based on wholly false premises.
"God is loved not because he is given us this world, but because he is said to have promised a much better world in the life after death. His gift to us of this world is therefore declined without thanks – – an effrontery which is often by describing this world as a place of trial for fitness to enter the world to come, on the principle that if you refuse God's first gift, you will get His second.'
" Those who look pitiful and hideous in their old age are only so because years rankle them, because they have not accepted the rhythm of their life and go forward to old age with regretful glances behind at lost glories."
"it is argued that the highest spirituality is simply a matter of accepting life as it is, and if this is something which we already have but do not realize, then its attainment will make no difference whatever to our lives." (