Everyone wants to be happy. Many, however, wrongly believe that happiness comes from having enough money, fame, personal comfort, worldly success, or even dumb luck. Happiness just seems to be so elusive and arbitrary — something all too often just out of reach. Joan Chittister sees happiness differently. To her it is not a by-product of wealth or success but, rather, a personal quality to be learned, mastered, and fearlessly wielded. Happiness, she says, "is an organ of the soul that is meant to be nourished." In these pages Chittister develops “an archeology of happiness” as she conducts a happiness “dig” through sociology, biology, neurology, psychology, philosophy, history, and world religions. Sifting through the wisdom of the ages, Chittister offers inspiring insights that will help seekers everywhere learn to cultivate true and lasting happiness within themselves.

Happiness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

JOAN CHITTISTER

Mental Health

Darton, Longman, and Todd

The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life

Every age has answered the questions and challenges of spiritual living in its own particular ways through its languages, arts, and lifestyles, giving seekers various concepts for guidance. In this original manifesto, bestselling author Joan Chittister delivers a roadmap based on the ancient Rule of Benedict that stands as a practical model upon which to build a satisfying life, despite the seemingly limitless (and at times meaningless) supply of options in the modern world. By giving spiritual seekers - individuals, couples, families, and small groups - a new opportunity to live a better life from the very centre of their world without ever having to withdraw from it, Chittister's new approach redefines Benedictine living for modern day seekers while remaining firmly rooted in its monastic values.

Parenting & Relationships

SPCK.

Two Dogs and a Parrot: What Our Animal Friends Can Teach Us About Life

SPCK Publishing

A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
What may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days, or liturgical seasons, this book explains their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live and think as Jesus did.
And it proposes to help us to year after year immerse ourselves into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually, we become what we say we are―followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening.
A volume in the eight book classic series, The Ancient Practices, with a foreword by Phyllis Tickle, General Editor.

The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Thomas Nelson

Joan Chittister, one of our most celebrated spiritual writers, invites us to embrace older age as a natural part of life that is both active and contemplative, productive and reflective, and deeply rewarding. She encourages us to cherish the blessings of aging and to overcome its challenges. And she shows us clearly that this is a special period of life—maybe the most special of them all. The Gift of Years looks at the many dimensions of aging, the purposes and concerns, struggles and surprised, the potential and joys. And perhaps the most important dimension of older age, Joan Chittister illuminates, is to become aware of its profound purpose: These are the capstone years, the time in which a whole new life is in the making again. The gift of these years is not merely being alive, it is the gift of becoming more fully alive than ever.

The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully

Franciscan Media

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So says Sr. Joan in this in-depth and powerful look at what our hearts can attain. She says that the ideas that fill our hearts determine the way we live our lives. Those are the things we draw on in those moments when we need to reach down deep inside ourselves for character, courage, endurance, and hope. 
 In this lovely book, Sr. Joan looks at 50 aspects, all of which in some way can fill our hearts and our lives. She talks about a prayerful heart, a peaceful heart, a wise heart, a cosmic heart, a compassionate heart. Each brief chapter offers abundant food for reflection and prayer, and each offers an opportunity to become persons who produce Good from the treasure of the heart (Luke 6:45).

Aspects of the Heart: The Many Paths of a Good Life

Twenty-Third Publications

Through brief daily reflections, this bestselling author looks to great works of art for inspiration, bringing the monastic perspective to the brushstrokes of masters like Van Gogh, Cezanne, Millet, and more. Each art masterpiece one for each month of the year is reproduced in full, lustrous color, and is accompanied by Sister Joan s meditations on life, the soul, and the searchfor fullness of self in a modern world.

The Art of Life: Monastic Wisdom for Every Day

Life. Plans. Hope. Dignity. Death. And life again. Here Sister Joan reflects on all this and more. These succinct sees of wisdom are imbued with deep awareness of God's love for us through all the joys, failures, misunderstandings, and questions of each day. "Life," says Sister Joan, "is about doing the best you can in the moment in which you find yourself so that, eventually, you can find yourself even wiser than you now are." Brief yet powerful, these meditations are perfect companions for each day of life's journey.

The Sacred In-Between: Spiritual Wisdom for Life's Every Moment

This simple little book, says Joan Chittister, touches on four elements of mindfulness that account for all the angst in our society right now moral maturity, spiritual witness, personal greatness, and universal kinship. These are the things that determine whether we go through life as part of its solution or part of the weight on its progress. 
 These powerful meditations, filled with wisdom gained from spiritual leaders who have inspired Sister Joan s own thought, will inspire your own prayer and group sharing, leading you to the simple but profound truth: We are all one.

We Are All One: Unity, Community and Commitment to Each Other

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