The Laws of Happiness: Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection, and Progress
About This Book
Okawa's systematic presentation of the four principles he identifies as the foundation of genuine human happiness — love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress. He argues that most human unhappiness results from the imbalanced or absent development of one or more of these four principles, and that their balanced cultivation through specific practices produces a quality of inner fulfillment that does not depend on external circumstances.
What You'll Learn
The four principles of happiness — love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress — are not four separate pursuits but four aspects of a single unified development; neglect of any one produces imbalance in the others. Love without wisdom becomes sentimentality or codependence; wisdom without love becomes cold intellectualism; self-reflection without progress becomes self-indulgent navel-gazing; progress without self-reflection becomes ambition without direction. The cultivation of all four simultaneously, through daily spiritual practice and consistent attention to one's inner state, produces the specific quality of consciousness that Okawa calls "true happiness" — an inner wellbeing that is stable regardless of outer circumstance.
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