The Saints' Guide to Happiness

Robert Ellsberg

History

Darton, Longman, and Todd

Blessed Among All Women

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd.

The Saints' Guide to Hapiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

Image Books/Doubleday

Blessed Among Us

Liturgical Press

A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saints In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Ellsberg looks to the saints to answer the questions: What is happiness, and how might we find it? Countless books answer these questions in terms of personal growth, career success, physical fitness, and the like. The Saints' Guide to Happiness proposes instead that happiness consists in a grasp of the deepest dimension of our humanity, which characterizes holy people past and present. The book offers a series of "lessons" in the life of the spirit: the struggle to feel alive in a frenzied society; the search for meaningful work, real friendship, and enduring love; the encounter with suffering and death; and the yearning to grasp the ultimate significance of our lives. In these "lessons," our guides are the saints: historical figures like Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and Teresa of Avila, and moderns such as Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Henri J. Nouwen. In the course of the book the figures familiar from stained-glass windows come to seem exemplars, not just of holy piety but of "life in abundance," the quality in which happiness and holiness converge.

The Saints' Guide To Happiness: Everyday Wisdom From The Lives Of The Saints

Worship & Devotion

St. Anthony Messenger Press

Book by Robert Ellsberg, Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day: Selected Writings

Dorothy Day

Orbis Books

Zen master, poet, monk and peace advocate, Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who has lived in exile in France for 30 years. Through his writings and retreats he has helped countless people of all religious backgrounds to live mindfully in the present moment, to uproot sources of anger and distrust, and to achieve relationships of love and understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)

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Buddhism

This edition of Dorothy Day: Selected Writings marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of death of one of the most challenging and inspiring figures of recent history. Dorthy Day (1897-1980) was co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and currently a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church. In her lifelong option for the poor and her unstinting devotion to active nonviolence, Day fashioned a new face for the gospel in our time. Dorothy Day: Selected Writings is widely recognized as the essential and authoritative guide to her life and work. The writings collected here reflect her spirit: meditative, ironical, combative, filled with love for the Catholic Worker family, and suffused with her special sense of the 'holy sublimity of the everyday.'

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

This anthology highlights the lives and teachings of a dozen modern spiritual masters, each of whom embodied a form of engaged spirituality attuned both to God and the needs of a wounded world. Balancing contemplation and action, the mystical and the political, prayer and compassion, these figures--including some of the world's best-known spiritual teachers -- represent a model of spirituality sensitive to tradition as well as the challenges of our time.

Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings on Contemplation and Compassion

New Age & Spirituality

Wisdom of the Sadhu: Teachings of Sundar Singh

Plough Publisher House

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