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Happiness Is an Inside Job
Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life | Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D.
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How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to loveto keep our minds in a happy moodwhen life is complex, difficult, and, often, disappointing? Bestselling author and beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein asked herself these questions when she started to write this inspiring new book. The result is her best work to date, offering warm, wise, and helpful ways we can experience happiness even when the odds are against us. As Boorstein has discovered in more than three decades of practice as a professional psychotherapist, the secret to happiness lies in actively cultivating our capacity to connect with kindness: with ourselves; with friends, family, colleagues; with those we may not know well; and even with those we may not like. She draws from the heart of Buddhist teachings to show how Wise Effort, Wise Mindfulness, and Wise Concentration can lead us away from anger, anxiety, and confusion, and into calmness, clarity, and the joy of living in the present. These qualities strengthen our ability to meet encounters of every kind with balance and intelligence, providing us with a grounded sense of true contentment. Happiness Is an Inside Job resonates with the knowledge of a psychotherapist, the compassion of a spiritual teacher, and the wisdom of a grandmother. Boorsteins vivid stories capture our minds and our hearts, and the simple exercises she suggests can be done while you read. This beautiful book is comforting and reminds us that life is a shared journey, that our hearts truly do want to console and love our fellow sojourners, and that living happily is indeed the best way to live. From the Hardcover edition.
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MEGR
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I really enjoyed this book on meditation and mindfulness. It was an easy read and easy to understand. It felt like talking to a friend, very comfortable and open. With the slew of meditation books out there, this would be a great pick for beginners and experts alike. I am really looking forward to reading more of her work. 📸: sake that I sipped mindfully with my sister 👯‍♀️

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”If my goal is happiness, I need to recognize the feeling ‘I‘m not heading in the right direction,‘ so I can initiate some corrective.”

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“May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.”

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“I thought about how everyone carries their family and their work and the whole world around with them all the time and that saying ‘are you all right?‘ is like throwing someone a rescue rope that says, ‘Want to connect?‘ “

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“It‘s incredibly easy to become confused. The mind becomes overwhelmed— by a challenge or its impulsive response to challenge—and becomes confused, misreads what‘s happening, and frightens itself.”

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“And the earth 🌏 itself greening and dying and greening and dying endlessly, exactly on schedule”

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“You are reminding your mind, diligently, to care—which is what it does naturally.”

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“We can‘t bless and simultaneously be imagining retribution and revenge.”

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“Being alive is a mysterious and precarious thing. That life is happening at all— however it is happening— is a miracle. You never really know what the next minute is going to bring, so living fully in this moment is the only constantly reappearing option for happiness.”

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“Replaying upsetting experiences keeps the mind inflamed. Soothing the mind by giving the argument a rest is a better idea.”

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“What I do matters, but I am not in charge.”

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MEGR
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Can I read it in two days before it is due??? We shall see...

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RinaBrahmbhattBarot
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I'm reading this tonight! Thanks to my lovely #BookSwap partner from #ChristmasBookSwap!!!
What are you reading tonight?

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RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks one of my fav read :) how are you finding it? 7y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @TheCanuckReader we had a newspaper in Britain called news of the world :) 7y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @DarcysMom looks fun and light read. How is it? 7y
tammysue I'm about 70 pages in. It's story line follows a young Appalachia girl--newly married and pregnant she's living a hard knock life with an abusive husband. Enjoying it so far👌🏻 7y
DarcysMom @MyBookSwapClub That is exactly what it is - I needed some light and fun 7y
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RinaBrahmbhattBarot
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@Bibliogeekery THANK YOU so much. I woke up to this. Absolutely looking forward to reading these two books, will be sipping tea while reading these. Love the miniature notebook and bookish ornament/badge which I'll cherish for years to come #SecretSantaGoesPostal

Robothugs Adorable ornament! 8y
LeahBergen 😍😍😍 8y
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arlenefinnigan Holidays On Ice is SO good 😁 8y
I-read-and-eat That notebook 😀❤ 8y
Bibliogeekery Yay! Glad you enjoyed it! Happy Holidays! 🎄🎅🎉 8y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Bibliogeekery I've indeed! THANK YOU 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 8y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Bibliogeekery Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2017 😍 8y
Bibliogeekery 😍😍😍 8y
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Here are my #textonlycovers (I skipped my husband's giant Philosophy textbook collection 😜). Funny how they tend to be mostly self-help/non-fiction! Except for Heart Sick, of course. 💀 #booktober