Happiness: a guide to developing life's most important skill
"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-…
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- Full title :Happiness : a guide to developing life's most important skill / Matthieu Ricard ; translated by Jesse Browner.
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."
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- Publication Date:2007.
- Edition:First Little, Brown paperback edition, January 2007
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
Notes
Translation of: Plaidoyer pour le bonheur.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 281 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780316167253, 0316167258
- oclc:ocm77495513
- LC Classification:BQ4304
- Dewey Decimal:294.3/444
Table of Contents
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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