{"product_id":"lessons-from-an-american-stoic-mark-matousek-9780063059696","title":"Lessons from an American Stoic","description":"\"This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America’s genius for freedom and promise.” \n— Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul\nA lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls.\nIn this wise, illuminating book, award-winning author Mark Matousek reveals how Emerson’s timeless wisdom can help us with the problems we’re facing today. America’s ‘original Stoic’ confronted many of the issues before us, from polarization to fake news, from crooked politicians and rampant materialism, to the scourge of racism.\nMatousek explains that Emerson’s path of self-reliance can radically improve your quality of life. The mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, Emerson (aka the Oracle of Concord) was America’s first self-help author, and his nation’s conscience for half a century. Like the Stoics before him, he emphasized self-knowledge and mindfulness as paths to happiness; also, self-reliance, cooperation, non-conformity, originality, adaptability, and receptiveness.\nAs Americans are once again discovering the power of Stoicism, Matousek shows why Emerson’s vision is precisely the medicine we need today. The principles of Waldo’s philosophy are universal and require no spiritual faith to put into practice.\nEach person creates her own reality\nObstacles are teachers in disguise\nYour character is your destiny\nWonder and awe are the keys to the kingdom\nNonconformity is the greatest virtue\nNature is the doorway to God\nLife without self-knowledge is not worth living\nEmerson encourages us to throw-off conventions and platitudes, explore ourselves in depth, tell the truth about what we find there, and awaken to our greatest potential.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51029498396960,"sku":"9780063059696","price":18.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780063059696.jpg?v=1781491571","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/lessons-from-an-american-stoic-mark-matousek-9780063059696","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}