In the Spirit of Happiness - Hardcover

Monks Of New Skete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316578517 ISBN 13: 9780316578516

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1999

Synopsis

A guide to achieving happiness applies basic monastic principles to life--self-discipline, prayer, acts of love, and forgiveness--revealing the simple secrets to connecting with the divine and other people

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Review:

The wise and cheerful monks of New Skete (How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend) believe that our spirits are meant to be happy. So within these pages, the popular monks of Cambridge, NY, offer useful suggestions for mastering the elusive art of happiness. And while this might sound like a book written by jolly Friar Tucks, it is in fact an intelligent, informed discussion on the soothing power of prayer, mercy, compassion, and devotion. It also opens the doors to the private life of monastic living--helping readers to see that even nuns and monks experience rapture as well as doubt and despair.

In most of their chapters, the monks speak to the principles of spiritual happiness, such as "The Discipline of Change," "Practice Sacred Reading," and "River of Mercy." Interspersed with these lively and useful chapters, the monks have inserted seven "Interludes" in which they speak about monastic living. The result is a thoroughly satisfying package, filled with advice, reflection, warm personal anecdotes, and a delicious taste of what it means to live the contemplative life. --Gail Hudson

About the Author:

"The Monks of New Skete have lived as a community in Cambridge, New York, for more than thirty years. Their two previous books, The Art of Raising a Puppy and How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend, have sold almost three-quarters of a million copies."

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0316578517
• ISBN 13: 9780316578516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336