Happiness Unlimited

In a series of candid dialogues, the spiritual teacher Sister BK Shivani argues that the scarcity of happiness in people's lives comes from depending on other people, places and circumstances. She explains that joy does not wait on ideal conditions, and that we often postpone contentment until some future moment that never arrives. Her answer is acceptance: meeting others as they are, in whatever situation we find ourselves, and taking responsibility for our own thoughts and feelings. The book encourages readers to move from asking to giving, from clinging to releasing, and from living in the past or future to living in the present. Happiness, she suggests, is a choice one makes rather than something that simply happens.