About this book
How may we find happiness and peace?
In this book, Rupert Spira distills the message of all the great religious and spiritual traditions into two essential truths: happiness is the very nature of our self or being, and we share our being with everyone and everything.
Drawing on numerous examples from his own experience, Spira demonstrates that to seek lasting happiness through objects, situations and relationships is destined for failure and disappointment, and skillfully guides the reader to recognize that we are already the happiness we seek.
This book is for anyone who yearns for lasting happiness and is open to the possibility that it is continuously available within ourselves, irrespective of our circumstances.
Could there be any greater discovery in life than to know that we are already that for which we long?
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Table of contents
- contents
- acknowledgements
- introduction: A Silent Prayer
- 1. The Search for Happiness
- 2. Know Thyself
- 3. Are You My Self?
- 4. The Art of Self-Enquiry
- 5. The Essence of Meditation
- 6. The Ultimate Prayer
- 7. The Silent Presence of Awareness
- 8. The Open, Empty, Aware Space
- 9. Peace and Happiness Is Our Nature
- 10. A Belief in Separation
- 11. There Is Only One Self
- 12. Who Is It That Suffers?
- 13. Our Innate Happiness
- 14. Suffering Is Our Own Activity
- 15. The Way of Surrender
- 16. Take Refuge in the Now
- 17. Attending to Painful Emotions
- 18. The Unity of Being
- 19. The All-Pervasive Spirit
- conclusion: An Invitation
- quotation sources
- publications by rupert spira
