How to Die Happy
Curated Wisdom, Stories, and Utilities for the Art of Living
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Martin O'Toole
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How can you achieve long-lasting happiness? Or transform your relationship with fear, death, or grief? What is happiness anyway? All these questions (and more) are asked and answered in How to Die Happy.
Exploring themes around life "at Earth School"—depression, consumption, distraction, emotions, ego, and the pursuit of success, How to Die Happy examines why many of us often feel off-center. It's a guide to happiness that embraces the paradoxical impermanence of this sought-after prize.
Former high-functioning alcoholic adman Martin O'Toole once lived a wild life of excess, oblivious of how childhood trauma had profoundly impaired his emotional maturation. A suicide attempt was the launchpad for his learning about mental health's complexities—lessons, he muses, he "ought to have been taught as a child".
He left London for the tropical island of Bali on a mission to heal his neuroses. This extensive self-help process uncovered what he calls the "anatomy of happy"—a methodology detailed in this book. Part curated wisdom, part handbook, part memoir, How to Die Happy distils the secrets to living and dying well. It cherry-picks Eastern philosophies like Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, connecting such mindfulness to psychological practices. Combining tales of self-suffering, forgiveness, and the miraculous healing power of psychedelic plant medicines, it offers a host of practical utilities to enjoy a vibrant and contented life.
These are not lessons from an enlightened guru or a PhD but by a self-professed, fallible "man on the mend". He deftly tackles serious subject matter in fun, often self-effacing, and lighthearted ways.
Today, we face material distractions at every turn. This book offers tools to help you find inner peace and happiness in a world that needs it more than ever. This is one self-care book you must hear before you die.
©2023 Martin O'Toole (P)2023 Martin O'TooleListeners also enjoyed...
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As more and more people in the West pursue yoga in its various forms, whether at traditional centers, in the high-powered atmosphere of sports clubs, or on their own, they begin to realize that far from being just another exercise routine, yoga is a discipline of the body and the mind. The 365 meditations included in this book offer a way to integrate the mindfulness that yoga teaches into everyday life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful
- By MikeSm on 01-11-16
By: Rolf Gates, and others
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A Life Worth Breathing
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- Narrated by: Max Strom
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- Unabridged
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We can do more with this life. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do itthat eludes us. In his new book, A Life Worth Breathing, internationally renowned yoga teacher and spiritual philosopher Max Strom shows us the way. His groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in a language that is vital, inspired, and accessible. Strom leads us on a journey of self-discovery as we excavate our past in order to have a better understanding of our present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true teacher.
- By Bend Yoga on 02-22-15
By: Max Strom
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The Way of Grace
- The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation
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- Narrated by: Miranda Macpherson
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story5 out of 5 stars 45
Many of us struggle to truly live what we believe spiritually. What if closing that gap wasn’t about trying harder, but something quite the opposite? The Way of Grace is an invitation to let go of the need for control, release our fears, and learn to be open and undefended with what is. Using teaching stories, guided meditation, self-inquiry practices, prayer, and more, Macpherson takes us step by step through the liberating process of undoing our fixed egoic patterns as we explore the four dimensions of Grace.
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The revelations of the practices of presence and love
- By sierra mimi on 04-09-19
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The World Could Be Otherwise
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In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.
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Master piece
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Meditations on Intention and Being
- Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion
- By: Rolf Gates
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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- Unabridged
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Presented in the form of 365 inspirational daily reflections, Gates helps listeners - from experienced yogis to novices seeking a little tranquility - to fundamentally reconsider their relationships with their minds, their bodies, and the universe around them through self-reflection.
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Loved This Book
- By Brittney on 11-24-16
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Essential Spirituality
- By: Roger Walsh MD PhD, His Holiness the Dalai Lama - foreword
- Narrated by: Roger Walsh M.D.#Ph.D.
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Abridged
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Based on more than 20 years of research and spiritual practice, written by a man who is both a spiritual practitioner and award-winning scientist, Essential Spirituality shows how you can apply the seven practices central to all the world's major religions in your daily life. Filled with stories, myths, case histories, prayers, and practical advice, this extraordinary work has the power to change your life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended
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By: Roger Walsh MD PhD, and others
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A Path with Heart
- A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
- By: Jack Kornfield
- Narrated by: Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield's A Path with Heart has been acclaimed as the most significant book yet about American Buddhism, a definitive guide to the practice of traditional mindfulness in America today. On this audio edition, Kornfield teaches the key principles of Buddhism's cherished vipassana (insight) tradition and puts them into direct service, with the unique needs of the contemporary seeker in mind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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NOT THE BOOK
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By: Jack Kornfield
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The Wise Heart
- A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
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You have within you an unlimited capacity for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom - and here is how to awaken it. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers an accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to the universal teachings of Buddhist psychology. He shows you how to use powerful Buddhist insights and practices to go beyond the trap of "self-improvement".
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Awesome!
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Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, the most diverse and accessible meditation center in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, she shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha's 2,500-year-old teachings that get to the heart of mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion. Woven throughout the book are stories from her life, family, and community, along with soulful and unexpected stories of compassion in action from all over the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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inspirational
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By: Spring Washam
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Buddha is as Buddha Does
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- By: Lama Surya Das
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- Original Recording
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Of all the Buddha's teachings, perhaps his greatest gift can be found in "the Bodhisattva ideal", a template for living in the world as an "Awakener", a servant of the highest good for all. With his previous best-sellers including Awakening the Buddha Within, American-born Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Surya Das has made the helpful, healing insights of the Buddha accessible to millions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Puts the heart into mindfulness meditation
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By: Lama Surya Das
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Dreaming Through Darkness
- By: Charlie Morley
- Narrated by: Charlie Morley
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
The Shadow is the part of us made up of all that we hide from others: our shame, our fears and our wounds, but also our divine spirit, our blinding beauty and our hidden talents. The Shadow is not bad—in fact it is the source of our creativity and power—but until we bring it into the light this power will remain untapped and our full potential unreached. This audiobook will show you how to fearlessly embrace your shadow side in both your dreams and daily life, thereby manifesting the awakened power of your full potential.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible... like an elementary school book report
- By Adam Connor on 08-28-18
By: Charlie Morley
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Make Peace with Your Mind
- How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic
- By: Mark Coleman
- Narrated by: Mark Coleman
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story5 out of 5 stars 52
The inner critic is the voice inside our heads reminding us that we are never "good enough". It's behind the insidious thoughts that can make us second-guess our every action and doubt our own value. The inner critic might feel overpowering, but it can be managed effectively. Meditation teacher and therapist Mark Coleman helps listeners understand and free themselves from the inner critic using the tools of mindfulness and compassion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing!
- By Lisa Ackerman on 12-28-20
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If the Buddha Got Stuck
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- By: Charlotte Kasl
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Charlotte Kasl's perennial favorites If the Buddha Dated and If the Buddha Married have inspired readers with their empowering blend of spiritual and psychological insights. Her third "If the Buddha" book, If the Buddha Got Stuck, is a wise yet lighthearted book that will speak to anyone who's ever experienced being stuck in life and wanted to break free.
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4 out of 5 stars
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i like the author's blend of spirituality
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Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 198
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 157
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Story5 out of 5 stars 155
We live in difficult times. Life so often seems like a turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy our world. Why, then, shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the comfortable - to our deep-seated habits and familiar ways? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more powerful experience of being fully alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book for the Times
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By: Pema Chödrön
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Awakening Joy
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Joy is not for just the lucky few - it's a choice anyone can make. In this groundbreaking book, based on his popular course, James Baraz helps you discover a path to the happiness that's right in front of you, offering a step-by-step program that will reorient your mind away from dissatisfaction and distraction and toward the contentment and delight that is abundantly available in our everyday lives. You can decide to be happy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I listen to Awakening Joy over and over
- By Love Coach, Annette Carpien, PCC on 04-14-16
By: James Baraz, and others
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Shaman
- Invoking Power, Presence and Purpose at the Core of Who You Are
- By: Ya'Acov Darling Khan
- Narrated by: Ya'Acov Darling Khan
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Ya'Acov Darling Khan, best-selling author of Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart, has travelled the world for over three decades to study with indigenous shamans. He has dedicated his life to cultivating a blend of shamanic practices that is both practical and poetic, both mystical and of the moment. In this audiobook, he invites us to rediscover our inner shaman. Shaman offers us an opportunity to reconnect with this spiritual path, and answers the question: What is shamanism's relevance to the challenges and opportunities we face in the 21st century?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ugh, I couldn't get past the very beginning.
- By J. Moore on 10-29-21
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Unlocked
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Chock full of tangible insights, unexpected ancient wisdom, and inspiring stories from his clients and his own life—from his darkest moments of addiction and inner turmoil to training some of the best athletes in the world—Unlocked is the culmination of Mumford’s life’s work; it helps us discover our gifts. To sustain success no matter the game or the stakes. To step into the power within us and embrace the freedom of being unlocked.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A man of character
- By Anita Chavez on 11-11-23
By: George Mumford
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- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco - one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous - perhaps ominous - message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security, and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Mrs G on 03-31-18
By: Danielle Steel
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The 10 New Life-Changing Skills
- Get Them and Get Ahead
- By: Rajesh Srivastava
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia, Rajesh Srivastava
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The earlier 3 Industrial Revolutions (3IRs) created blue collar and white-collar jobs, which required people to carry out instructions, not question authority and follow time-tested systems and processes. Now, we are in the midst of the 4th Industrial revolution (4IR), also called Industry 4.0. It is creating ‘green collar’ jobs, which need people to ‘think, reflect and act’. To develop these abilities and perform the green collar jobs efficiently, it is critical that professionals develop certain skills—the 10 new life-changing skills.
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The Money Trap
- Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
- By: Alok Sama
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world—SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is Sama’s thrilling, stranger-than-fiction personal odyssey featuring his experiences alongside SoftBank’s iconic founder, Masayoshi Son, a visionary maverick who wants to be remembered as “the crazy guy who bet on the future” and whose mission is “happiness for everyone.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Expected and unexpected at every turn
- By CDL on 11-18-24
By: Alok Sama
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Being You
- A New Science of Consciousness
- By: Anil Seth
- Narrated by: Anil Seth
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to “be you” - that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the nature of consciousness to be a primarily spiritual or philosophical inquiry, but scientific research is now mapping out compelling biological theories and explanations for consciousness and selfhood.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not engaging, nothing new
- By Tristan on 11-22-21
By: Anil Seth
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The Conquest of Happiness
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This metaphysical self-help classic instills happiness within and urges individuals to pursue a content life without sin, boredom, or contempt. Written decades ago with post-war depression in mind, this text has transcended time and continues to give applicable advice for modern-day individuals.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator was horrible
- By Mar on 09-09-20
By: Bertrand Russell
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 550
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For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A nice petite primer on Proust
- By Darwin8u on 02-20-13
By: Alain de Botton
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- 06-19-23
An excellent read!
Martin O’Toole walks the reader through the various adventures of his life and what he’s learned along the way. It’s not only a lesson in how to die happy, it’s fuel for how to live a fulfilling life. Highly recommend!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-12-23
Simplifying the complex
It’s one beautifully curated assemblage of timeless wisdom, speckled across a spectrum of infinite wonder. I’ve never seen a book so eloquently bring together such diverse positions of philosophical wisdom, from all arenas into one. On top of that, it’s all magnificently intertwined in the most seamlessly progressive fashion imaginable. The anatomy of happy makes so much sense it’s a wonder that it could be this simple. Is it really that simple? After reading this book I’m convinced that it truly is! Thank you Martin
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-23
Beautiful listen, full of insight and even guided meditations
I loved listening to this book on my walks in nature. It contains a lot of insights from the author’s personal journey through his life about practices and perspectives that can remind you to live in joy and in presence.
I also absolutely loved the guided meditations in between chapters to be reminded of the present moment and my breath.
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