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Author: Jeffrey Kirby Publisher: ISBN: 9781505105902 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this encouraging, easy-to-read book, Father Jeffrey Kirby offers hope to the tired, overburdened, and unhappy. He reminds us that we are made for happiness. But he goes beyond that, showing us the path to achieving happiness. It's not a new path. In fact, Jesus showed us the way in the Beatitudes, but Kingdom of Happiness reveals how these aren't merely nice sayings, they are powerful ways of living.
Author: Jeffrey Kirby Publisher: ISBN: 9781505105902 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In this encouraging, easy-to-read book, Father Jeffrey Kirby offers hope to the tired, overburdened, and unhappy. He reminds us that we are made for happiness. But he goes beyond that, showing us the path to achieving happiness. It's not a new path. In fact, Jesus showed us the way in the Beatitudes, but Kingdom of Happiness reveals how these aren't merely nice sayings, they are powerful ways of living.
Author: Aimee Groth Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501129902 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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"An inside look at the CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, one of the most enigmatic and successful entrepreneurs of our time, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas"--
Author: David L. Peters Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1504376420 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 337
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We are bound in the music of life where we dance and weave within that glorious melody, or what some call God. Now, God has said that we are the very image of God (Genesis 1:27), and as images of God, we have the inborn ability to have Joy and Happiness forever present in our life. The author, David L. Peters, is an octogenarian whose life has always been filled with joy, regardless of outward appearances. The wonders of the Kingdom of Heaven is everyones birthright, if you know how to let your Creator and the Universe enter your spirit. Jesus put it succinctly: The Kingdom of God lies within (Luke 17:21). The Kingdom of God, Paradise, Heaven: these lie within you, right now, waiting for you to only turn and see, and join in the dance. Paradise is right within us, but how do we unlock the door to this wonder of joy? This book lays a path open that the author has followed for almost 80 years, starting as a young boy in rural Ohio, and it operates as advertised. No matter how things look in life, how bad it seems, all one need do is look deeper within and find the joy that can fill life: life is good! The life of abundant joy and happiness is yours for the asking. Dip your toe in the living waters, and taste the Beauty of God that is awaiting.
Author: Nihal S. Dissanayake Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781453645352 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Book No. 3462989 THE HAPPY RAJ wins the FIRST PLACE in the Open Manuscript Competition 2010 organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka. THE HAPPY RAJ is a religious and a philosophical novel about happiness and suffering. It uses Buddhist philosophy to analyze human behavior. THE HAPPY RAJ is about billionaire Prof. Happiraja and his project to create his dream KINGDOM OF HAPPINESS in the beautiful island of the Happy Raj. Happiraja plans to help any one to move up the happiness ladder towards eternal happiness levels, with his Sotapatti Meditation Program. In Lord Buddha's words Sotapatti level is higher than that of being a World King. It is in this environment that The Happy Raj saga continues to move into the fourth novel. The Plot Billionaire Prof. Happiraja retires prematurely and moves into The Happy Raj to create an nvironment for stress and mind refinement exercises. His project gets derailed when one of his supervisors, Deva dies mysteriously and his partner, hermaphrodite Cicci jumps in to the burning funeral pyre. Dada, the former owner of the island, destituted by a tsunami wave, is invited as his guest and becomes the first target for his happiness operations. Appearance of a ghost in his old cottage sends 72-year old Dada into the Medical Centre with a heart problem. When Dada leaves for home, his cottage had been refurbished to prevent him falling sick again. Playing with the powerful notebook computer gifted by the Professor when he left the Medical Centre, Dada, a designs engineer, plans to bounce back into active life .When Rev. Aloka arrives to cleanse the island of the ghosts, Dada gets interested in meditation. Two of top Happy Raj executives wear yellow robes to follow the Sotapatti Meditation program in search of Nirvana. Dada gets ordained and becomes the Trustee of the Temple of Happiness. A tsunami wave batters the island immediately after its inauguration, destroying almost all buildings. Prof. Happiraja plans to rebuild the Kingdom immediately. CHAPTER ONE: THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF IMPERMANENCE The fluorescence of the hidden tube lights faltered flickered and disappeared eclipsing the room with a thin cloud of darkness. The shadows hiding like ghosts under the tables, chairs, cupboards, computers and stools, changed their positions, sizes and lengths to extend their tentacles looking for new areas for their control, after suffering several hours under the unfriendly rays of the fluorescent tubes. When a new source of light emerged, creeping stealthily into the room through the narrow openings in the red and yellow curtains that protected the office room of the President; the shadows readjusted their areas of control. The murmur of the air-conditioners faltered and faded off reluctantly to an untimely death. So was the hand of the electric clock that was fixed on to the cream colored walls of the office of the President of the State Polytechnic, Prof. Happiraja. The UPS attached to his computer screeched desperately asking for help and guidance. Embarrassed by the unfriendly disturbances to the serenity of his room, darkened by the sudden failure of the power supply, Prof. Happiraja extended his long and fleshy left hand, covered with a white long-sleeved national costume, and used his plump thumb to ensure complete silence in the room. He thought that the power failure could be due to the political forces operating in the country. He jerked his head that was pivoting at the top of a tall and a slender body to look at the hands of the clock that had lost its indefatigable desire for movement. Its hands told the retiring chief that the time was 9:34; exactly twenty six minutes more for his last meeting with the members of the academic staff who were getting ready to say good bye to their beloved boss....
Author: Anne Ostby Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0525434682 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail with the same proposal, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat—Kat the adventurer, Kat who ran away to travel the world as soon as they graduated—has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with me on my cocoa farm in Fiji. Come spend the days eating chocolate and gabbing like teenagers once again, free from men, worries, and bad weather. Come grow old in paradise, together, as sisters. Who could say no? Now in their sixties, the friends have all but resigned themselves to the cards they’ve been dealt. But surrounded by an azure-blue ocean, cocoa trees, and a vibrant local culture, they begin the process of coming to terms with the lives they left behind—and reinventing themselves for the future that still lies ahead.
Author: Andrew E. Clark Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691196958 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 338
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A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life course What makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.
Author: Brock Bastian Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241239850 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 208
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'Required reading ... Brock Bastian expertly picks apart the fundamental idea that humans thrive when they approach pleasure and avoid pain, explaining why hardship sometimes yields richer lives that are laden with meaning, deep social connections, and unexpected bliss' Adam Alter, author of Drunk Tank Pink In today's culture, happiness has become the new marker of success, while hardships are viewed as personal weaknesses, or problems to be fixed. We increasingly try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, despite being the safest generation to have ever lived. Yet in his research, renowned social psychologist Brock Bastian has found that suffering and sadness are neither antithetical to happiness nor incidental to it: they are a necessary ingredient for emotional well-being. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience and internationally acclaimed findings from Bastian's own lab, The Other Side of Happiness encourages us to take a more fearless approach to living. The most thrilling moments of our lives are often balanced on a knife edge between pleasure and pain, whether it is finding your true love, holding your new-born for the first time, finishing a marathon or even plunging into an icy sea. This is because pain and the threat of loss quite literally increase our capacity for happiness, as Bastian reveals, making us stronger, more resilient, more connected to other people and more attuned to what truly matters. Pain even makes us more mindful, since in our darkest moments we are especially focused and aware of the world around us. Our addiction to positivity and the pursuit of pleasure is actually making us miserable. Brock Bastian shows that, without some pain, we have no real way to achieve and appreciate the kind of happiness that is true and transcendent.
Author: Richard Layard Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101117710 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 295
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There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it. Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all.
Author: Jeffrey Kirby
Author: Jeffrey Kirby
Author: Aimee Groth
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Author: David L. Peters
Author: Nihal S. Dissanayake
Author: Anne Ostby
Author: Andrew E. Clark
Author: Brock Bastian
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Author: Richard Layard