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In this concise examination, Alan Watts compares the concepts of happiness across various cultural and religious traditions. Integrating Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, and analytic psychology, he examines how these perspectives define joy and outline pathways to its attainment.
First publish date: February 1979
Genre: Philosophy/Ethics
Authors: Alan Watts
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