Alan Watts
The Meaning of Happiness
Written work
The Meaning of Happiness
The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
His first book written in the United States. It links depth psychology, especially Jung's, with Eastern wisdom to argue that happiness is not reached by pursuing it but by accepting the whole of experience, pain and uncertainty included. Harper reissued it in 1968 with a new preface.
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Alan Watts
The Meaning of Happiness
The Conscious LibraryThe Meaning of Happiness
Harper & Row, 1968
Segunda edición con nuevo prefacio
Alan Watts
The Meaning of Happiness
The Conscious LibraryThe Meaning of Happiness
Harper & Brothers, 1940
Primera edición, Nueva York
Other works by Alan Watts
- An Outline of Zen Buddhism · 1932
- The Spirit of Zen · 1936
- The Legacy of Asia and Western Man · 1937
- Theologia Mystica (translation of Pseudo-Dionysius) · 1944
- Behold the Spirit · 1947
- Easter: Its Story and Meaning · 1950
- The Supreme Identity · 1950
- The Wisdom of Insecurity · 1951
- Myth and Ritual in Christianity · 1953
- The Way of Zen · 1957
- Nature, Man and Woman · 1958
- Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen · 1959
- This Is It · 1960
- Psychotherapy East and West · 1961
- The Joyous Cosmology · 1962
- The Two Hands of God · 1963
- Beyond Theology · 1964
- The Book · 1966
- Nonsense · 1967
- Psychedelics and Religious Experience · 1968
- Does It Matter? · 1970
- Erotic Spirituality · 1971
- In My Own Way · 1972
- The Art of Contemplation · 1972
- Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown · 1973
- Tao: The Watercourse Way · 1975
- The Essence of Alan Watts · 1974
- The Essential Alan Watts · 1976
- Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk · 1978
- Om: Creative Meditations · 1979
- Play to Live · 1982
- The Way of Liberation in Zen Buddhism · 1955
- The Way of Liberation · 1983
- Out of the Trap · 1985
- Diamond Web · 1986
- The Early Writings of Alan Watts · 1987
- The Modern Mystic · 1990
- Talking Zen · 1994
- Become What You Are · 1995
- Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion · 1995
- The Philosophies of Asia · 1995
- The Tao of Philosophy · 1995
- Myth and Religion · 1996
- Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking · 1997
- Zen and the Beat Way · 1997
- Seeds of Genius · 1997
- Culture of Counterculture · 1998
- Still the Mind · 2000
- What Is Zen? · 2000
- What Is Tao? · 2000
- Zen: The Supreme Experience · 2002
- Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life · 2006
- The Collected Letters of Alan Watts · 2017
- Just So · 2020
- Tao for Now · 2023
- Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life (television series) · 1959
- A Conversation with Myself · 1971
- Out of Your Mind · 2004
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