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  • Happiness

  • A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
  • By: Matthieu Ricard
  • Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
  • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (133 ratings)
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Editor reviews

The topic of happiness is examined by French Buddhist Monk and leading Happiness coach Matthieu Ricard in his audiobook Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill which has been narrated by Humphrey Bower. This book is one of the most comprehensive happiness guides on the market. It details the core principles that a truly happy life entail and teaches you how to attain them. Incorporating both eastern and western thought schools on the subject, Ricard will equip you with all you need to bring happiness into your life. Available now from Audible.

Summary

A molecular biologist turned Buddhist monk demonstrates how to develop the inner conditions for true happiness.

Never has happiness as an emotional and physical state of being been so widely discussed. Matthieu Ricard is one of the most compelling voices on the subject, and one of the few who can bring together the teachings of eastern and western thought. In this accessible new work, Ricard provides a straightforward assessment of how to create true and lasting happiness. He addresses the pursuit of a meaningful life at its most fundamental level - the strengthening of the inner conditions that lead to genuine happiness. Ricard helps readers form new patterns of interaction with themselves and with the larger world, working toward happiness step by step, starting with 20 minutes of daily mind training and meditation.

©2007 Matthieu Ricard (P)2007 Bolinda Publishing

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Inspiring book. Great narrator. Definitively worth listening to. However, stay away from it if you meditation doesn't work for you. This books only answer to developing happiness is meditation.

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brilliant loved it

Brill loved it from start to finish narrator had great voice was interested all tbrough

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Excellent

Such a calming audiobook. One that I intent to return to over and over again.

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Kind of useless

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

While the book as good in general I find some of the advise useless in todays age for most 'normal' people.

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Thoughtful and inspiring

This is a book I will return to often and one I will gift to friends and perhaps people that aren’t, so that they may find the inner peace that they don’t understand 🙏🏼

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This certainly didn't make me happy.

I found it boring and extremely difficult to engage with and become interested. Very dissatisfied.

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inspirational messages

You can keep dipping into this book reading and always be comforted by it's content and the optimism it delivers.

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This book changed my life forever 🙏

I bought and read this perhaps six years ago. I’ve reread it twice since then. It started me on a long, hard, painful path to putting right what needed to done, and finding and following my own path to contentment. A lot of books in this genre could just as easily be replaced with a pdf on how to meditate. Not this one. It’s special. A wonderful message, narration and articulation of what we should spend most of our focus on: how to get the most meaning out of life - and in the process, perhaps reduce the suffering around us and enhance our own happiness.

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