On Happiness: Great Minds

Happiness is the Ultimate Good-the final end of all our actions: everything we do, we do with the hope that it will make us happy. Why, then, do so few of us attain this ideal? Why do we spend most of our lives in suffering, emptiness, and dissatisfaction?

How do we attain happiness? Across all cultures, major philosophies, and world religions, the answer to this question is nearly universal. But if the path to happiness has been so firmly established for thousands of years-if the wisest thinkers from disparate regions, throughout the ages, have essentially agreed on how we achieve lasting happiness-why is it still so elusive? Were Plato, Buddha, and Jesus simply wrong? Or do ignorance and delusion have such a strong hold on us that we cannot follow the path to happiness, though it is laid out at our feet?

This collection includes some of the finest writings on the wisdom of happiness, and its timeless counsels are sure to help us discover how to become truly, and permanently, happy.

Edited and with an introduction by Nima Omidi.

With new translations and modernizations of classic works.

"Featuring contributions from: "
The Bhagavad Gita
The Dhammapada
The King James Bible
Plato
Aristotle
Epictetus
Cicero
Seneca
Epicurus
Marcus Aurelius
Blaise Pascal
Michel de Montaigne
Arthur Schopenhauer