Happiness revisited : The roots of discontent ; The shields of culture ; Reclaiming experience ; Paths of liberation -- The anatomy of consciousness : The limits of consciousness ; Attention as psychic energy ; Enter the self ; Disorder in consciousness: psychic entropy ; Order in consciousness: flow ; Complexity and the growth of the self -- Enjoyment and the quality of life : Pleasure and enjoyment ; The elements of enjoyment ; The autotelic experience -- The conditions of flow : Flow activities ; Flow and culture ; The autotelic personality ; The people of flow -- The body in flow : Higher, faster, stronger ; The joys of movement ; Sex as flow ; The ultimate control: yoga and the martial arts ; Flow through the senses: the joys of seeing ; The flow of music ; The joys of tasting -- The flow of thought : The mother of science ; The rules of the games of the mind ; The play of words ; Befriending Clio ; The delights of science ; Loving wisdom ; Amateurs and professionals ; The challenge of lifelong learning -- Work as flow : Autotelic workers ; Autotelic jobs ; The paradox of work ; The waste of free time -- Enjoying solitude and other people : The conflict between being alone and being with others ; The pain of loneliness ; Taming solitude ; Flow and the family ; Enjoying friends ; The wider community -- Cheating chaos : Tragedies transformed ; Coping with stress ; The power of dissipative structures ; The autotelic self: a summary -- The making of meaning : What meaning means ; Cultivating purpose ; Forging resolve ; Recovering harmony ; The unification of meaning in life themes.