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Everyone is searching for happiness, says osho, but because they are looking in the wrong direction outside no one ever really finds it. Nov 09, 2019 the geography of bliss is the story of a grouch who was traveling the world looking for the happiest place. As a student of bliss, i enjoy reading the top books to inspire happiness. Foreign correspondent and selfprofessed grump eric weiner sets out in search of happiness around the world. Let us start from the lowest because that will be easier to understand, thats where man biologically is born. In many ways, it is a more powerful word than happiness. Dec 30, 2007 the book is also weakened by the disconcerting fact that weiner sometimes spends as little as two weeks in a given country. The dysfunctional dance of the empath and narcissist.
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