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The Meaning of Happiness
- The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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,
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Concepts Hard to Follow Along
- By Ryan on 04-13-20
- The Meaning of Happiness
- The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
Good Concepts Hard to Follow Along
Reviewed: 04-13-20
I recommend reading the book and skipping over this audio version.
The narrator has a relaxing voice, however I felt like he was moving too fast for the concepts to sink in. Even switching between titles of chapters it was like “Is this a new chapter?” Lol. He just kept going along at an even almost monotone pace. Maybe it was just me not being able to focus, but I had to try really hard to follow along and felt like I missed most of it.
It does not compare to Alan’s masterful way of communicating. Alan speaks so fluently and I get his concepts (same concepts as in this book) easily when listening to his lectures. This narration did not do him justice and it would have been so much better if it could have been narrated by Alan himself.
That being said I didn’t mean to shit on the narrator but if you want to get into Watts then I recommend just listening to his lectures on youtube or reading the book instead so you can take your time to digest the concepts.
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