Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life
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Why is 'being happy' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do people give happiness? In this book Abbot Christopher turns to monastic wisdom to offer answers and to explain that in essence, happiness is a gift, not an achievement, the fruit of giving and receiving blessings. Following the same accessible and engaging format of FINDING SANCTUARY, Abbot Christopher takes different aspects of happiness, examines them, tells us what monastic wisdom has to say about them and offers us steps towards our own journey to finding happiness.
Author: Father Christopher Jamison, OSB
Format: Paperback, 240 pages, 130mm x 176mm, 193 g
Published: 2009, Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom
Genre: History of Ideas & Popular Philosophy
Description
Why is 'being happy' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do people give happiness? In this book Abbot Christopher turns to monastic wisdom to offer answers and to explain that in essence, happiness is a gift, not an achievement, the fruit of giving and receiving blessings. Following the same accessible and engaging format of FINDING SANCTUARY, Abbot Christopher takes different aspects of happiness, examines them, tells us what monastic wisdom has to say about them and offers us steps towards our own journey to finding happiness.
Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life