Keys to the Ultimate Freedom: Thoughts and Talks On Personal Transformation

After my second coronary in 1952 I was told I would not live much longer — that I might die any day and shouldn't make the effort to take so much as a step unless I necessarily had to. I was extremely fearful of dying, but I said to myself, "you're still breathing, Lester — there is still a chance."
So I decided to start from scratch. Forget all that I knew. Begin from point zero and see what I could pick up. So, I posed a question, "What am I?" "What is this World?" "What is my relationship to it?" "What is Mind"? "What is Intelligence?" "What is Happiness?"
I began by asking myself, "What do I want out of Life?"... and the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into moments when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. When I was loving I was happiest. Happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was the starting point.