Happiness : a guide to developing life's most important skill / Matthieu Ricard ; translated by Jesse Browner.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0316167258
- ISBN: 9780316167253
- Physical Description: xvi, 281 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Little, Brown paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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| Subject: | Happiness > Religious aspects > Buddhism. Religious life > Buddhism. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | 294.3444 RIC (Text) | 33114016781262 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
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