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#8 Soul of Happiness is the Happiness of the Soul!
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In this episode we talk about the idea of happiness.
What does it really mean to be happy? Is it transient or lasting? Is it relative or something absolute? Is it only a means or an end in itself. Does it mean that during our limited life span we are happy in every waking and sleeping moment? Is there a blueprint for happiness?
Among many other things we discuss :
- Idea of Happiness in The Holy Quran (Surah Yunus 57-58 )
- Alchemy of Happiness ( Imam Al Ghazali)
- Happiness has roots in old english word "Happ", meaning fate or luck
- Cataract of the Heart
- The_Revival_of_the_Religious_Sciences (Imam Al Ghazali's Magnum Opus)
- Story of the Reed Flute ( From Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi's Masnavi )
- "When I have fashioned him and breathed My spirit into him..." ( Surah Hijr 29 )
- Man's search for Meaning ( Viktor Emil Frankl)
- Harvard's longest running study on Happiness ( 1938)
- Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
- Scientific Method vs Scientism
- Jefferson's Pursuit of Happiness
- Oppressed peoples around the world are denied this right of the Pursuit of Happiness
- John Lock
- Pleasure/ Power/ Meaning ( Freud /Adler/ Frankl)
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