Happiness: Fortune, Success, and the Human Spirit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781855845329)

What is truehappiness? This perennial question preoccupies many experts, includingbiologists, psychologists, sociologists, and theologians, but their findingsusually confirm what we already knew--that happiness is one of the mostsought-after but elusive commodities.

RudolfSteiner's liberating view of happiness opens up new vistas and perspectives.Happiness, he says, depends on the human spirit, whose continuing evolutiondraws sustenance from the totality of life's experiences. We develop and learnin equal measure from good fortune and misfortune, success and disappointment.Steiner urges inner equilibrium, emphasizing the transience of outwardhappiness. Inward happiness, however, can never be taken from us, depending asit does on, "whatever we ourselves make of our outward fortunes."

This richand inspiring little book gathers all of Steiner's statements on thetheme and features two complete lectures on happiness and spiritual knowledge.It also includes an insightful introductory essay by Daniel Baumgartner.