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The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit
“What is happiness and how can I find it?” may be one of the most frequently asked questions there is. Perhaps that’s because it is so hard to experience lasting happiness.
In The Saints’ Guide to Happiness, Robert Ellsberg suggests that some of the best people to show us are holy men and women throughout history—from St. Augustine to Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton to St....more
In The Saints’ Guide to Happiness, Robert Ellsberg suggests that some of the best people to show us are holy men and women throughout history—from St. Augustine to Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton to St....more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
September 27th 2005
by Image
(first published 2003)
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This is a beautiful meditation on the paths in life that saints have taken which lead toward happiness. I have to admit that I've only read half-way through it, but sometimes I find that a review 'from the middle' can be as good as a tidy and patted-down one from the end.
[Review from 2010.] I skim a lot of books - religious, secular, self-help, academic - and so the reason I'm only halfway through this one is because it's good enough to read slowly, one or two sections of a chapter each night. T...more
[Review from 2010.] I skim a lot of books - religious, secular, self-help, academic - and so the reason I'm only halfway through this one is because it's good enough to read slowly, one or two sections of a chapter each night. T...more
Ellsberg's journey to define happiness through those we admire - saints and just good people - led me to question how I live and see the events in my life. I think sometimes, one might try so hard to be happy and surge to find that sense of physical and emotional security through attachment to titles, jobs, objects, and people that never truly realize that happiness they seek. Ellsberg includes little gems about vocation - for instance, Flannery O'Connor explains that she writes because "I'm goo...more
Nov 06, 2007
Jes Pedroza
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those interested in the Saints and their lives.
There is no ten steps or twelve steps nor any number of steps that lead to happiness. There is no spiritual prescription. Happiness is a continuous journey that we go through in life. Robert Ellsberg gives us a taste of the varying conceptions of what the saints believed to be happiness. St. Brigid of Ireland envisioned true happiness as a large family gathered around a lake of beer (my kind of girl), while other saints found it while living a life of poverty and solitude. Although they all foun...more
Awesome book! It is one of my favorites. It shows what kinds of saints, as well as ordinary people what they have gone through: their sufferings and struggles and how they got through them.
This is a book that I want to come back to again. There were so many spots that resonated with my life right now.
This book had a lot of good reminders and lessons. It was less a collection of stories about the saints than using the saints as examples for the lessons, which I really liked.
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