A manual for surviving the current epoch-making changes and finding happiness by starting with ourselves.

Never before has humanity been in such a disorientated, powerless position as during the current historical era of epochal proportions – we have economic inequality, devastating climate change and migration. Alberto Simone starts with the premise that the world’s troubles derive chiefly from the catastrophic state of our inner eco-system. The challenge lies in the theory that precisely because human beings and nobody else have created these conditions, it is with human beings that we must begin in order to try and mend the damage within us. A concrete aid for tackling the present and planning the future.

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Following the success of Trilogia della felicità, this is a new journey in search of well-being and inner harmony, to enable it to expand from our I and spread across our surroundings: to our loved ones, our friends, our fellow humans, things, nature and the actual planet.

Finding an answer to the centuries-old issue of human suffering, interpreted as the result of an experience of separation, is a great entreprise. Alberto Simone shows us how to consciously search to reunite all the divided and separate parts of ourselves, first and foremost where this is truly possible – our inner world – with the help of specifically devised “practices” and “exercises”. This book is a new, holistic exploration of the human person, with particular attention to our inner, immaterial dimension.

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A collection of meditations and reflections on our relationship with things and with the world, and on how happiness can also be a matter of perspective.

Who doesn’t want happiness for him or herself, or for loved ones? Who hasn’t ever known a moment of happiness at least once in his or her life? This happiness we’re trying to grab hold of, taking photos and shooting home movies of every festive occasion, to share it all with friends, relatives and people close to us. And yet it’s ephemeral and fleeting – a rare chimera that makes us feel frustrated and depressed when we don’t experience it. And yet this book talks of possible and lasting happiness. A condition of greater freedom and emotional stability, of inner peace and total interrelation with the universe. The author tackles it by exploring those invisible and often subtle mechanisms with which we – we and nobody else – make things hard for ourselves by distancing ourselves from a natural condition that knows how to enjoy and rejoice in everything that fills life and makes it unique.

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