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Happiness : a guide to developing life's most important skill Cover Image Book Book

Happiness : a guide to developing life's most important skill

Ricard, Matthieu. (Author).

Summary: In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves at least as much energy as any other in our lives. Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves an inspirational and forward-looking account of how we can begin to rethink our realities in a fast-moving modern world. With its revelatory lessons and exercises, Happiness is an eloquent and stimulating guide to a happier life. Book jacket.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0316057835 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780316057837 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 281 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st English language ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281).
Formatted Contents Note: Talking About Happiness -- Is Happiness the Purpose of Life? -- A Two-Way Mirror: Looking Within, Looking Without -- False Friends -- Is Happiness Possible? -- The Alchemy of Suffering -- The Veils of the Ego -- When Our Thoughts Become Our Worst Enemies -- The River of Emotion -- Disturbing Emotions: The Remedies -- Desire -- Hatred -- Envy -- The Great Leap to Freedom -- A Sociology of Happiness -- Happiness in the Lab -- Happiness and Altruism: Does Happiness Make Us Kind or Does Being Kind Make Us Happy? -- Happiness and Humility -- Optimism, Pessimism, and Naivete -- Golden Time, Leaden Time, Wasted Time -- One with the Flow of Time -- Ethics as the Science of Happiness -- Happiness in the Presence of Death -- A Path.

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Cherokee Regional Library:
      Chickamauga Public Library 		294.344 RICARD ( Send Text)
 31010005651635 ADULT Available
Dougherty County Public Library:
      Northwest Branch 		294.3444 RICARD, MATTHIEU ( Send Text)
 31018002287311 NONFIC Available
Hall County Library System:
      Spout Springs Library 		294.3 RICARD ( Send Text)
 31025002038800 NONFIC Available

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