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  • Published: 30 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780345481320
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $36.00

Happiness Is an Inside Job

Practicing for a Joyful Life




Like her national bestseller It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness, Happiness Is An Inside Job is becoming a book readers will seek out for many years.

How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love–keep our minds in a happy mood–when life is complex and often challenging? These are questions that Sylvia Boorstein addresses in Happiness Is an Inside Job. In more than three decades of practice and teaching she has discovered that the secret to happiness lies in actively cultivating our connections with the world, with friends, family, colleagues–even those we may not know well. She shows us how mindfulness, concentration, and effort–three elements of the Buddhist path to wisdom–can lead us away from anger, anxiety, and confusion, and into calmness, clarity, and the joy of living in the present.

  • Published: 30 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780345481320
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $36.00

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Praise for Happiness Is an Inside Job

"A small, polished gem of a book. . . [Boorstein's] quiet insistence that the Buddhist practices of mindfulness, meditation and metta (lovingkindness) can quiet the mind, deepen concentration and lower anxiety is both convincing and inspiring."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Reading this wonderful book is like having a heart-to-heart with Sylvia. It is wise, warm, and full of great stories that will make you smile. Best of all, it will cheer your spirit by showing you how to practice happiness."--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart