In this chapter, I provided an overview of the concepts of happiness and self-actualization. In the next chapter you will learn some basic routes to happiness and learn a process for discovering the deeper causes of unhappiness. The promise that I make you this. I believe it is possible to find at least one route to happiness in any situation. Happiness is a measure of the overall health, growth, and harmony of the entire body and mind.
Happiness also reflects our perception of the harmony and functioning of the external world.
The biological happiness mechanism has safeguards against lack of concern about other people and lack of concern about the future. To make happiness our ultimate concern in life is to align our conscious ultimate concern with the most basic human motives and universal forces. If we all seek happiness for self and others, humankind can evolve into a highly integrated organism that will maximize the happiness for all. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.