Read this book if you want to learn how to acheive Happiness

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	• In The Spirit of Happiness The Monks of New Skete Back Bay Books, 2001 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

best book i've ever read - inspirational!

an amazing book, thoughtfully and articulately written, and filled with inspiration, wisdom, and depth. once i started it, i couldn't put it down. i recommend it to anyone - independent of your spiritual/religious leanings. it's the kind of book i'll (hope to) read 10 times, and continue to peruse over the years, because the lessons for life are enduring.

Great Monastic Primer

This book is so easy to read and understand. It is well written and very enjoyable. The best part about the book is that it gives an inside look at the monastic life... not just the how to's and whys, but the internal realities of faith and doubt, fertile times and fallow times of prayer. We are using it in our newly formed Religious community as a Formation tool with our new comers. The Aspirant and their Anamchara (Soul Friend) use the book as a springboard for discussion of what living the monastic life is all about. As a Religious of over 30 years, I have found it one of the most helpful books for Formation and Renewal of the interior life. Sister Barbara Jean, Abbess, Anamchara Fellowship

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Nurturing a dialog with God

This little book is full of wisdom that teaches how to nurture a relationship with God. It describes the monastic spiritual experience and then distills those elements that can be useful outside the cloister in everyday life.
Most of all, there's an attitude of holiness that is profound without being sacchrine.

Thought provoking

I liked the book so much I've read it about three times now. I memorized a few of the prayers because they help me get through rough days when I'm feeling down or need to feel connected to something greater. Some of it would appeal to the spiritual/intellectual types, and yet it also has inspiration for the more simple, everyday, down-to-earth types (I classify myself to be among the latter group) who are just looking for some answers. They make good observations, like how we should be in the moment - really listen to others, look at them and fully engage in the conversation rather than doing the half-listening and multi-tasking we often do while communicating with others. Simple, yet profound stuff.

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Read this book if you want to learn how to acheive Happiness

Outstanding! A feast of the practical and the balanced. This book gives the reader a breifing about the Monks of New Skete and answers questions like "What is Monasticism? and What is a Monk?" etc. in the "Interlude" chapters.
Then in the other chapters it offers practical advice on living a balanced Christian life that is community centered (Matthew 18:20 & 2 Peter 1:20.) In the chapters "Sacred Reading and the Word" and "Practicing Sacred Reading" they offer advice conserning the daily reading of the Psalms, which anyone will benefit from.
As evidenced in other reviews the modern conservative fundamentalist crowd might have a minor mute issue with something in this book.

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The wise and cheerful monks of New Skete (How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend) believe that our spirits are meant to be happy. So within these pages, the popular monks of Cambridge, NY, offer useful suggestions for mastering the elusive art of happiness. And while this might sound like a book written by jolly Friar Tucks, it is in fact an intelligent, informed discussion on the soothing power of prayer, mercy, compassion, and devotion. It also opens the doors to the private life of monastic living--helping readers to see that even nuns and monks experience rapture as well as doubt and despair. In most of their chapters, the monks speak to the principles of spiritual happiness, such as "The Discipline of Change," "Practice Sacred Reading," and "River of Mercy." Interspersed with these lively and useful chapters, the monks have inserted seven "Interludes" in which they speak about monastic living. The result is a thoroughly satisfying package, filled with advice, reflection, warm personal anecdotes, and a delicious taste of what it means to live the contemplative life. --Gail Hudson

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