Finding Happiness

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Finding Happiness
Author Christopher Jamison
PublisherOrion Publishing Co
Publication date
2008

Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life is a 2008 book by Christopher Jamison. [1] In the book Jamison discusses the modern error of equating external pleasures with happiness and argues that the interior world is the true source of happiness. [2] Jamison challenges the reader to step back and be more contemplative, and to be still and look inwards. [3] The teachings which Jamison presents are "based on those of the fourth-century Desert Fathers, founded by St Anthony and honed into shape by St Benedict, father of western monasticism". [4]

Christopher Jamison is Abbot of Worth, a Benedictine abbey in West Sussex, who became well known through the BBC TV series The Monastery . [2]

References

  1. ↑ Christopher Jamison (2008). Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life, Orion Publishing Co.
  2. 1 2 Ruth Gledhill. Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life [ dead link ]TIMES Online, December 21, 2008.
  3. ↑ Christopher Jamison (2008). Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life, Orion Publishing Co, pp. 38-39.
  4. ↑ Sue Arnold. Finding Happiness The Guardian, 8 November 2008.
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