Im new Yea Forums: how can I reach happiness?i need philosophical books about this,please...

You have two options:
1) Look at your past, resurface trauma and work through it. You need psychology books

2) Disregard your past, look to attain contentment through your behavior and conscious attitude towards the world. For this you need philosophy or religious books

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>No Finnegan's Wake

Any one who tells you philosophy can make you happy know nothing about either philosophy or happiness.

Most philosophers tried to solve their existential problems. Ironic isn't it?

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I'm happy right, I have an extremely positive outlook on life. I have a surface-level knowledge and understanding of philosophy; I naturally have asked myself the same questions people have been wondering for thousands of years, and I have come to satisfying conclusions with them myself. I know there are arguments against my conclusions that would make me realize I'm entirely wrong and would absolutely shatter my world-view, but right now they are my reality.

Should I stop with philosophy? Is ignorance bliss? Will anything good come from following my curiosity?

Read books on the lives of the Saints. Helped me a whole lot, cause the things they done and suffered through baffled me. Made me realize that living a life that has value as opposed to one that doesn't is just so much better.

What i have gathered is that a life where you strive for something (even if it is hard and you ultimately fail), is more enjoyable than a life of hedonistic passivity.
I don't know if it's true though or those who claim it simply couldn't do better. Super rich guys that abandoned their comfy lifestyle and lived a life of devotion are few

So the language is more important than the content?

Neither way you'll regrete it.

Or, weight these two options indefinitely and become Faust.

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Stoic and Buddhist approaches to psychology and dealing with negativity has helped me. It definitely hasn't made me 100% happy nor should it, but if you are looking for that to be the case, you will be disappointed

Thx, I lost the will to live without throwing the dice again and I keep trying to picture myself out of the game with an old friend, reminiscing about the book that saved me from the duel horror of being an unemployed loser with an anger problem and an fractured emotional awareness like a child capable of only watching as he is painted in a leaddotted type as well as various types of suggestive degeneracy that swirls and tapes receipts to the same effect as the more realist fashioning of him; and Faust was the book we would think about together.

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Fucking pussy. Weap when the work is over.

This. Goonan gets a lot of stick on this board but it’s all from people who haven’t read his book. This book got me out of a really dark place 6 months ago, I just wish he got the recognition he deserves.

Emotions are logical. You can’t solve your happiness or life satisifaction like you would math. Happiness is largely about being in the present, embracing life and joying all do it’s oddities.

For me it's an effortful process.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden