How can we keep up with life? How can we keep loving what we do? Sylvia Boorstein asked these questions when she was a teacher. The result is Happiness Is an Inside Job, her best work to date, a warm, wise, and instructive book on how we can cultivate happiness even when the odds are against us.

Boorstein has found that the secret to happiness is not in monastic solitude but in cultivating our connections with the world, with family, friends, colleagues, and even those we do not know well. She reminds us that our hearts want to console, appreciate, encourage, and love and that restoring these qualities leads to a solidly grounded sense of happiness.

Sally BoorSTEIN is a co-founding teacher at the Spirit Rock meditation center in Woodacre, California, as well as a senior teacher at the Insight meditation society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is beloved by her students and has the ability to show them how to make it a part of their lives. She lectures widely and writes a regular column. She is the author of It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness.