Happiness is an extremely loaded term. It means completely different things to different people. And it's difficult to talk about because everybody has strong, preconceived notions of what happiness is and how they would get to it. I'm going to conflate happiness and pleasure and peace and joy and bliss. But at the same time, this is not math. We cannot clearly bound these words. They mean different things in different contexts ton different people. So let's just try and get into the spirit of what i'm saying, rather than get hung up on specific words and details....