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In The Art of Joyful Living, Swami Rama imparts a message of inspiration and optimism: that you are responsible for making your life happy and emanating that happiness to others. This book shows you how to maintain a joyful view of life even in difficult times.  Contains sections on transforming habit patterns, working with negative emotions, developing strength and willpower, developing intuition, spirituality in loving relationships, learning to be your own therapist, understanding the process of meditation, and more!
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"Your culture teaches you to smile at others, but such smiles are only momentary and do not reflect your real feelings. Actually, there should be a perennial and real smile on your face all the time. To achieve that, you should have a clear concept of the meaning of life, and the philosophy of life. Then, you will start to live on a deeper level, and will begin to enjoy your life…When you understand your real responsibility in life, you'll know that every human being is responsible to make his life happy, and then to emanate that happiness to others…"
From Mark... I picked up a copy of The Art of Joyful Living by Swami Rama in a little bookstall in Rishikesh⎯the town in Northern India that is often called the world yoga capital. It sat on my bookshelf for some long while, until one day I started reading it….and I have not really stopped since. It is the kind of book you can just pick up, flip randomly to any page, and come away with something useful in life, just by reading a few paragraphs. The book is, as the title suggests, all about the art of joyful living, and like mastering any craft, living joyfully takes some time, effort, tools, and practice. In this little book, Swami Rama covers a wide array of topics, including emotions, desires, willpower, wisdom, and the spirituality of loving relationships, and provides us with tools that can help us to live more joyfully.
Tantra teaches us to live in the world, but not to be of the world, in other words, to enjoy life, but at the same time not be attached to all that is worldly. Most of us are taught about, and spend our lives dealing with the external world, but few devote much time to thinking about or working to understand their internal reality. This is where Swami Rama⎯one of the greatest Tantric sages of our time⎯takes us, and this book helps us to explore that inner reality. Swami Rama tells use that happiness is our own creation, that each and every one of us is responsible for making our own life happy, and that we are all capable of being joyful, no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in. In fact, everything we need is already inside of us…that is what he helps us to discover in this book.
If you are interested in learning to lead a happier and more peaceful and joyous life, then The Art of Joyful Living is a book for you. Don’t be discouraged by the occasional passage that is difficult to read or hard to understand. There are plenty of things that will make sense to anyone who reads this book, and if you are like me, the more you read the more you will understand. Click here to buy the Art of Joyful Living
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