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Happinesse J Is an Insidob Audiobook by Sylvia Boorstein
Happinesse J Is an Insidob Audiobook by Sylvia Boorstein
How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love what we do year after year? These are the questions best-selling author and beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein asked herself. The result is Happiness Is an Inside Job, her best work to date, a warm, wise, and instructive book on how we can cultivate happiness even when the odds are against us.
In her more than four decades of Buddhist practice and teaching, Boorstein has discovered that the secret to happiness lies not in monastic solitude but in cultivating our connections with the world, with family, friends, colleagues, and even those we do not know well. In this beautiful book, she reminds us that our hearts want to console, appreciate, encourage, and love and that restoring these qualities leads to a solidly grounded sense of happiness.
SYLVIA BOORSTEIN, Ph.D. is a co-founding teacher, along with Jack Kornfield, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusettes. Beloved by her students, she has a special ability to show how we can make mindfulness a part of our everyday lives. She writes a regular column in Shambhala Sun and lectures widely. She is the author of the national bestseller, It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness.
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Sylvia Boorstein
The anthropologist Margaret Mead said that some people have a “teaching gene” and, if that’s true, I think my father, Harry Schor, had that gene and that I inherited it from him. He loved explaining and demonstrating, and so do I. He taught me to swim, to roller skate, to ride a bike, to solve anagrams and to construct crossword puzzles. He taught me about puns and limericks. He was a mathematics teacher by profession and he taught me algebra and geometry at home, years before I learned them at school. My mother was unique amongst the mothers on our street. She had a job. She drove a car. She had passionately progressive political views and the loudest laugh of anyone I knew. I think I’m just like her.
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York and went to public grade school and high school. All four of my grandparents arrived in America, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, between 1900 and 1920. None of them had had any education at all, and for them America was great because everyone could vote and everyone could go to school. My mother’s greatest dream was for me to go to an Ivy League women’s college, and I went to Barnard College and majored in Chemistry and Mathematics. I met and became engaged to my husband Seymour when I was sixteen. We were married three years later. I graduated from college in 1956 and we moved to Kansas where he trained to be a psychiatrist. I taught Chemistry at Washburn University, and I became interested in psychology. We settled in California in 1961. I earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of California Berkeley in 1967 and began working as a psychotherapist. At the College of Marin in Kentfield, California from 1970 until 1984, I taught psychology, Hatha Yoga, and introduced and taught the first Women’s Studies course. In 1974, I was awarded my Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook University. My thesis topic was, “Hatha Yoga as a Gentle Psychotherapeutic Tool.”
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