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“When one develops one’s natural needs, desires, inclinations, and capacities in ways that harmonise and unify one’s inner psychological states and fits these into a grand natural order that facilitates successful action in the world, and when one reaches the point where one regularly and spontaneously achieves these dual aims, one feels that one is one’s element, has found one’s home, and is performing one’s proper role in the world. Such action generates a special feeling of joy or happiness not only for those who behave this way but also for those who observe such behaviour.” PhilosophyHappinessHuman NatureOneness Book:Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected Source: Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected