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The Way to Happiness.(Book Review)
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Reviewer's Bookwatch
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April 1, 2005
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The Way to Happiness
George Catlin
De Vorrs Publications
553 Constitution Avenue, Camarillo, CA 93012
www.devorrs.com
ISBN: 0875168043 $8.95, 78 pp.
The Way to Happiness by George Catlin enumerates the questions that seekers of happiness must ask themselves "to make sense of life" and which lead ultimately to "the spiritual life" (p. 1). Important questions are "What are we doing here?" (p. 5), "How can one maximi...
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