The five thieves of happiness / John Izzo, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Izzo, John, author.

Series:

BK life book.

BK life book

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness.

Conduct of life.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 140 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Stop Seeking Happiness; Just Get Out of Its Way! Happiness is our natural state, for each of us and for humanity as a whole, argues John Izzo. But that happiness is being stolen by insidious mental patterns that he depicts as thieves: the thief of control, the thief of conceit, the thief of coveting, the thief of consumption, and the thief of comfort. He discovered these thieves as he sought the true source of happiness during a year-long sabbatical, walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and living in the Andes of Peru. This thoughtful and inspiring book describes the disguises these thieves wear, the tools they use to break into our hearts, and how to lock them out once and for all. Izzo shows how these same thieves of personal happiness are destroying society as well. This book will help us all discover, develop, and defend the happiness that is our true nature while creating a world we all want to live in.

Contents:

ch. 1. Happiness is our natural state

ch. 2. The first thief : control

ch. 3. The second thief : conceit

ch. 4. The third thief : coveting

ch. 5. The fourth thief : consumption

ch. 6. The fifth thief : comfort

ch. 7. Kicking the thieves out of your house

ch. 8. Imagining a world without the five thieves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 21, 2016).

ISBN:

9781626569348

1626569347

9781626569331

1626569339

OCLC:

963726538