The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Everyday Wisdom from the Lives of the Saints: 19 - Softcover

Ellsberg, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0232525439 ISBN 13: 9780232525434

Verlag: Darton Longman & Todd, 2004

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"If you've been thirsting for a more authentic life, this is your book. No abstractions here, only real people scuffling, searching, stumbling into grace--and happiness. In these pages are living templates, which spark recognition: Hey, that's me. I could be like that.' I love this book." -- Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of "Dead Man Walking" "Happiness--deep, true, stable, lasting--is not the result of feelings, but is a by-product of holiness. Whatever the common opinion, it is in fact the holy who live life to the full. Robert Ellsberg understands this lovely paradox and explains all its implications with grace and charm."- Sister Wendy Beckett, author of "Sister Wendy's Book of Saints" "Robert Ellsberg regards saints as friends worth knowing. His engaging book shows us why we should commune with the saints: for their uncommon wisdom as people who discovered that happiness and holiness are the same thing."-- Kenneth L. Woodward, author of "Making Saints

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Deep in the heart of every person is a longing for happiness. But what is happiness, and how might we find it? Robert Ellsberg suggests that happiness is not a matter of circumstances or feeling but of finding our true self. It is found not through the struggle to escape from this life into another one but in the way we deal with the basic things that every one of us must face - work, love, suffering, and death. Ellsberg draws models and inspiration from the great figures in the Christian tradition, famous saints such as Francis of Assisi and Teresa of Avila, and also remarkable men and women that he has known and worked with, such as Henri Nouwen and Dorothy Day. This wonderful book brings alive a tradition, sometimes obscured or misunderstood even by Christians themselves, that brings happiness and holiness together in the idea of 'life in abundance'.

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• Verlag: Darton Longman & Todd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0232525439
• ISBN 13: 9780232525434
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242