Achieve Lasting Happiness: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Life

By Robert E. Canright Jr.

Everyone wants a happy life. We sometimes assume possessions, power, prestige, or excitement will make us happy. All these pursuits eventually leave people feeling unfulfilled. Achieve Lasting Happiness, shows the secret to happiness lies within our humanity. We can realize the full potential of our humanity through the power of self-transformation. This book explains a four-step process for a fulfilling life. The four-step process is applied in a 28-day guided study using the timeless lessons of Confucius. This book will empower you to change your life. It will put you on the path to lasting happiness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420838946
• ISBN13: 9781420838947
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I highly recommend this book.

One character in a Puccinni opera sings, "It is hard to be happy." That is true for too many people in this world and why, I think, Canright entitled his book, "Achieve Lasting Happiness." This book shows us how to use the lessons of Confucius to live a good, prosperous, happy life. The author shows that the Confucian attention to the welfare of the community means living a good life creates a stronger community, so a good life for you improves the lives of others. A core concept in Confucianism is "self-cultivation." This is a deeper concept than the "self-improvement" or "human potential" movements in America, so this book is a good match for America, but has greater depth than many self-improvement books. There are many lessons for better leadership in the Analects of Confucius that can benefit the business community. This book brings the lessons of Confucius into the context of contemporary America like no other book. This book has four chapters in Part 1 and all the Analects of Confucius in Part 2. No one considers Confucianism a source of solutions for contemporary American issues. Chapter 1 explains why we ought to look at Confucianism. Some knowledge of Chinese culture is helpful to understand the Analects, and chapter 2 explains these concepts and relates them to American culture. Chapter 3 presents a four-step process for self-transformation and then chapter 4 is a 28 day guided study, showing us how to use the Analects within the four-step process. Confucius was a teacher born over 2,500 years ago. He did not create a religion, yet his ideas are still studied because they touch our humanity. Since Confucianism is a philosophy instead of a religion, people of all faiths, including aethists, can enjoy this book and bring its lessons into their lives. Confucius pitched a big tent. There is room for everyone. This book has changed my life. It's not like I got struck by lightening, but I see things differently now and I am continuing to study the ideas in this book and am continuing to grow as a person.

A thinking person's book

Canright shows, through examples from real life and recent events, that for the world to achieve peace and prosperity, humanity must find common ground on which to build. That common ground is not to be found in religion, rather, he proposes a set of universal values that can unite humanity and heal the rifts between us. These universal values can accommodate every religion, culture, and nationality. He derives these values by combining Eastern and Western thought to reveal the underlying wisdom of both. Using those values, Canright describes a way of living that is conscious, deliberate and purposeful. It is a path of self-transformation guided by four main principles: Seek Truth; Commit Yourself; Live Joyfully; Share Hope. To discover about how to use these concepts to shape your life to achieve lasting happiness, you'll have to read the book. It's worth it!