Books like Joy of Living by Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur

A book about self acceptance.

Two leading spiritual masters—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu—share insights on cultivating joy, even amid adversity, offering practical teachings and daily practices for enduring happiness.

Jack Kornfield opens a practical, compassionate guide to Buddhist psychology, revealing how mindful insight can unlock love, joy, and freedom in everyday life.

Joyful Wisdom offers a Buddhist perspective on everyday anxiety, presenting meditation techniques to transform unsettling emotions into lasting clarity, confidence, and joy.

Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur combines Tibetan Buddhist meditation with cutting‑edge neuroscience and quantum physics to explain how systematic practice cultivates happiness, compassion, and a deeper understanding of reality.

Jack Kornfield guides readers through the rewards and challenges of spiritual practice, exploring meditation, inner transformation, compassion, and how to weave these into Western life.

Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path into a proven and systematic approach to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction--an indispensable alternative to the 12-step program. While many desperately need the help of the 12-step recovery program, the traditional AA model's focus on an external higher power can alienate people who don't connect with its religious tenets. Refuge Recovery is a systematic method based on Buddhist principles, which integrates scientific, non-theistic, and psychological insight. Viewing addiction as cravings in the mind and body, Levine shows how a path of meditative awareness can alleviate those desires and ease suffering. Refuge Recovery includes daily meditation practices, written investigations that explore the causes and conditions of our addictions, and advice and inspiration for finding or creating a community to help you heal and awaken. Practical yet compassionate, Levine's successful Refuge Recovery system is designed for anyone interested in a non-theistic approach to recovery and requires no previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism or meditation.