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 as 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 01/01/2007
ISBN: 9780316167253
Pages: 281
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.75d