The Art of Living
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The Art of Living
| Author | Wilferd A. Peterson |
|---|---|
| Published | 1961 |
| Pages | 53 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Wilferd A. Peterson’s short inspirational essays, each titled “The Art of…” — first run on the “Words To Live By” page of This Week magazine from 1960, then collected into a book that began a series selling millions of copies. |
Where I heard about it
- My own look-it-up list — a reminder, around 2014, to look up “the art of living,” with a note to ask a friend if the search failed.
About this edition
This card is Wilferd A. Peterson, The Art of Living (Simon & Schuster, 1961) (Wikipedia). Other books share the title:
- Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness (Sharon Lebell’s modern interpretation, HarperSanFrancisco, 1995). A plain-English version of the Stoic Enchiridion, which is already on the list as Enchiridion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Living (2017). Came out after the reminder was written, so it is almost certainly not the one.
- Not a book at all: the phrase also names the Art of Living Foundation (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s breathing and meditation courses) and the title of many talks and sermons.
Connections
- Enchiridion: the source text behind the Epictetus/Lebell candidate.
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