Angeles Arrien-Gratitude

What would happen if you focused solely on gratitude for a full year? Angeles Arrien invites you to find out with Living in Gratitude. She presents a 12-month plan for making gratitude your foundation for daily living, combining the latest social science teachings with stories, prayers, and practices from cultures and traditions all over the world.

Beginning with “Beginning Anew” and “The Power of Equanimity,” and progressing to “Letting Be and Letting Go,” “The Mystic Heart,” and other topics, readers will immerse themselves in “the parent of all virtues,” exploring:

• Blessings, learnings, mercies, and protections: the four portals to the grateful heart and how to cultivate these key entryways in our work, relationships, health, finances, and personal growth • Journaling and reflection exercises, perennial and indigenous wisdoms, and universal practices for every season and situation
“The practice of gratitude confers numerous advantages,” writes Angeles Arrien. “Its embrace melts anger, arrogance, and jealousy.” Fear and defensiveness fade away. Gratitude lowers barriers to love and inspires happiness, preserving what is meaningful to us.” Living in Gratitude is a reliable resource for making this cherished virtue your guiding light as you travel through life.

Review of Editorials

“Angeles Arrien is one of our generation’s most gifted and generous teachers.” She brings forth the timeless wisdom of traditional cultures and makes it accessible and pragmatic, which is critical to the health of our modern society. Angeles Arrien is a unique and wise elder. She is an example of what she teaches.” Metta Institute founder and director Frank Ostaseski

“In our hectic lives, we all crave deeper breaths and loving connection. The wonderful gift of this wise book is that it demonstrates how to do so. It guides us, hand in hand and heart in hand, month after month, to greater mercy, joy, well-being, and happiness. What a fortunate way to live.” A Path with Heart author Jack Kornfield

“The art of gratitude has rarely been presented in such a rich and evocative manner.” Angeles Arrien brings her luminous wisdom to create a masterpiece of soulful living, brimming with story, spirit, science, culture, and prayer.” Dr. Jean Houston, author of A Mythic Life

“Practicing gratitude on a daily basis will improve the quality of your life in every way, including better health, more fulfilling relationships, and greater financial abundance.” This is the best manual I’ve ever seen for showing you how. I wholeheartedly endorse it!” Coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles, Jack Canfield

“After writing about and practicing gratitude for over a decade, I felt there was nothing else to say.” Then I read the book Living in Gratitude. Angeles elevates the practice of gratitude to a whole new level. Month after month, she leads us through questions and reflections on how to use gratitude to grow spiritually in our work, finances, health, and relationships. I’d like to thank her and this book.” M.J. Ryan, author of A Grateful Heart and Attitudes of Gratitude

“Are you tired?” Disheartened? Worried? Please read this book as soon as possible. Please allow this heart food to feed you at the deepest levels of your being. This is more than a book-it is a manual for living a life that you love and that matters, a life of savoring and serving, a life or inter-communication and grace. Please, let yourself be fed.” ―Jennifer Louden, author of The Woman’s Comfort Book and The Life Organizer

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Angeles Arrien
Angeles Arrien, PhD (1940–2014) received her master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and her doctorate from the California Institute for Integral Studies. Dr. Arrien’s teachings bridge the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion, while focusing on universal beliefs shared by humanity. She lectured and led workshops internationally on cultural anthropology and transpersonal psychology at colleges, corporate settings, and personal growth facilities. Her books include The Four-Fold Way, The Second Half of Life, and Living in Gratitude, and her audio-learning programs include Gratitude, Gathering Medicine, and more.

Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson is a spiritual teacher, lecturer, and author of four New York Times #1 bestsellers, including A Return to Love, Meditations for a Miraculous Life, and many other books.