In a world where fear, crisis and insufficiency dominate the media and many personal lives, the notion of claiming contentment may seem fantastic or even heretical. Yet finding sufficiency right where you stand may be the answer to a world obsessed with lack. In his warm, down-to-earth, and believable style, Alan Cohen offers fresh, unique, and uplifting angles on coming to peace with what is before you. He shows you how to turn mundane situations into opportunities to gain wisdom, power and happiness that does not depend on other people or conditions. Peppered with many true-life anecdotes and inspiring examples, Radical Contentment embraces the desire for change and improvement as part of the journey. Sometimes getting fed up with situations that are not working delivers the impetus to create better ones. You will be moved, illuminated, and tickled to find that what you seek may already be within your grasp and surely within your potential. If contentment is radical, then this book may well spur a revolution of wellbeing!
You will be moved, illuminated, and tickled to find that what you seek may already be within your grasp and surely within your potential. If contentment is radical, then this book may well spur a revolution of well-being!
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37 Matt Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 48. 38 Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex (1908), ...
In Radically Happy, a meditating Silicon Valley entrepreneur teams up with a young, insightful, and traditionally educated Tibetan Rinpoche.
This book provides an alternative point of view: that contentment is an option separate from numbness, and that to allow ourselves to experience acceptance and satiation is also a radical act.
In this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively.
Published by Cool Breeze Books Atlanta, this workbook begins a series of Radically Contented books.
This happiness doesn't come from getting what you want but from wanting what already is. It comes from realizing that who you think you are is not who you really are. This is a radical perspective!
Similarly, the dissident Marxist feminists Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham have indicated that market transactions are never completely hegemonic when the overall economy consists of varying types of transactions.
As Alan Eisner talks about in his book on the American prison system, Gates of Injustice, multigenerational prisoners are becoming the norm. We now have fathers and sons serving sentences in the same prisons. Lord, have mercy.