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Al-Ghazali

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The Alchemy of Happiness

  1. IDEA 1

    Know yourself to know the divine

    Al-Ghazali begins with self-knowledge. Your true self is the heart, the inner knower, and the body is only its vehicle. To understand the divine, start by understanding what you really are.

  2. IDEA 2

    The heart is a mirror

    Greed, envy and anger are like rust on a mirror. Remembrance, honest effort and good conduct polish it, until the heart reflects truth clearly again.

  3. IDEA 3

    Let reason rule, not appetite

    He compares the self to a kingdom: reason should be king and desire and anger its servants. Trouble begins when the servants take the throne and the king takes orders from them.

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