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Table of Contents

                            ALSO BY MATTHIEU RICARD
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1: TALKING ABOUT HAPPINESS
2: IS HAPPINESS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE?
3: A TWO-WAY MIRROR:
4: FALSE FRIENDS
5: IS HAPPINESS POSSIBLE?
6: THE ALCHEMY OF SUFFERING
7: THE VEILS OF THE EGO
8: WHEN OUR THOUGHTS BECOME OUR WORST ENEMIES
9: THE RIVER OF EMOTION
10: DISTURBING EMOTIONS:
11: DESIRE
12: HATRED
13: ENVY
14: THE GREAT LEAP TO FREEDOM
15: A SOCIOLOGY OF HAPPINESS
16: HAPPINESS IN THE LAB
17: HAPPINESS AND ALTRUISM:
18: HAPPINESS AND HUMILITY
19: OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM, AND NAïVETé
20: GOLDEN TIME, LEADEN TIME, WASTED TIME
21: ONE WITH THE FLOW OF TIME
22: ETHICS AS THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS
23: HAPPINESS IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH
24: A PATH
NOTES
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