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Happiness
Happiness
Everyone longs to be happy, yet many wrongly believe that happiness comes from having enough money, fame, personal comfort, worldly success, or even dumb luck. Happiness all too often seems to be an elusive, arbitrary thing -- something that is always just out of reach.
Joan Chittister sees happiness differently -- as a personal quality to be learned, mastered, and fearlessly wielded. In Happiness she embarks on a "great happiness dig" through sociology, biology, neurology, psychology, philosophy, history, and world religions to develop "an archaeology of happiness." Sifting through the wisdom of the ages, Chittister offers inspiring insights that will help seekers everywhere cultivate true and lasting happiness within.
What Readers Say...
Joan’s book is a wonderful corrective to the piles of narcissistic, fluffy “find yourself” books and self-help theology.
- Shane Claiborne
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We will find our way through life one fall at a time, one stone wall at a time, one blind spot at a time, one misunderstanding at a time, one fear at a time. One more bit of arrogance toppled, one more bit of self doubt confirmed, at a time.
Which means that determining what we are meant to do with our lives will necessarily unfold slowly and tentatively. Just as we grow slowly and tentatively, so will our understanding and awareness of what we are meant to do in life develop the same way.
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