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The Art of Living Well: How to Find Joy and Love Your Life
The Art of Living Well How to Find Joy and Love Your Life Author:Ron Schneebaum MD The Art of Living Well: How to Find Joy and Love Your Life details the psychological and spiritual basis for increased creativity, and joyfulness. It follows a trail blazed by the sages of western civilization, stopping at four points along the way. This first, The Oracle of Delphi ?the Holiest of Holies in the ancient Greek world?greets us with... more » the words emblazoned on its entryway: "Know Thyself." Through these words we will come to an appreciation that Love stands at the very center of our being. We then meet Polonius, a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, who advises his son: "To thine own self be true." In this section we will learn to forge the Love we've uncovered into a tool of forgiveness, and we will use it to heal the buried hurts and pains in our past. Freed and bolstered with a newly strengthened sense of self, we next stand before the urgings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Trust thyself." Here we will learn how to trust the deepest within ourselves and the deepest in the world. At the last stopping point we find the words of friends and loved ones, not the wisdom of sages. They tell us to be ourselves?words that sound so simple?and we will see that we have the exact skills to live that way. The prize for our efforts is the art of living well: we will be able to find joy and love life in all of our various settings and roles. The author applies his more than thirty years as a physician, educator, and striver to lay out a detailed approach that is available to anyone wiling to work with heart, mind, and commitment. Inner exercises complement the ideas presented in the pages, allowing readers to go at their own pace and to find their own insights and discoveries. This book will be of interest to anyone who believes there is more to life than what we see with our eyes.« less