Description
In this highly entertaining and literate book, Shawn Shea takes us on a provocative journey into the world of practical philosophy, applied spirituality and everyday psychology. Calling upon more than twenty years of clinical experience, fifty years of navigating life's ups and downs and an array of thinkers and pop icons- from Alan Watts to Albert Einstein, Billy Graham to Bob Dylan, the Dali Lama to the English mystic Julian of Norwich-he weaves a gentle compassion and a tart wit into this compelling look at human nature and our never-ending quest for happiness.
Not content with traditional stereotypes, Shea is on a search for a tougher happiness that is present and revitalizing even during times of stress, loss and pain. He begins with the intriguing twist that happiness is not so much a feeling as it is both an attitude and a feeling. He shows how to distinguish between success and happiness, emphasizing the importance of embracing life as a series of moments to savor as opposed to a series of goals to achieve.
For Shea, happiness is determined within
each moment by five interacting processes- our biologies, our perspectives, our relation- ships, our environments and our spiritual quests. These five interacting, constantly shift- ing processes give happiness its fluid nature; change one factor, and you change them all.
. ISBN:9780757300660
