Frédéric Lenoir
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Lenoir : Happiness, a philosophical journey
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What is happiness, and how can we cultivate it? Frédéric Lenoir explores this universal pursuit through the teachings of great philosophers and thinkers from Eastern and Western traditions. From Epicurus to Spinoza, including Montaigne, Buddha, and Epictetus, he examines different perspectives on happiness, pleasure, and wisdom. Combining philosophical reflections, practical examples, and discoveries from neuroscien…
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Lenoir : Jung, a journey to yourself
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"Carl-Gustav Jung (1875-1961), a Swiss physician, pioneer of psychoanalysis, is one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. He remains quite unknown in France, while his ideas have exerted a profound influence on our contemporary culture and he has been the inventor of many revolutionary concepts, such as synchronicity, collective unconsciousness, archetypes or complexes.He is with Spinoza one of the authors w…
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Lenoir: The Odyssey of the Sacred
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Since his appearance, Homo sapiens has felt terrified and admired in the face of Nature and wondered about his existence. From this feeling of the sacred were born all the great spiritual and religious currents of the world. Why is he the only animal that seeks to give meaning to his life, practices funeral rituals and invents great collective stories?Frédéric Lenoir tries to answer these questions and shows, over t…
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Lenoir : The Soul of the World
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"Presenting the imminence of a planetary cataclysm, seven wise men from all over the world gather in a lost monastery of the Tibetan mountains to transmit to Tenzin and Natina, two teenagers, the keys to universal wisdom. Beyond the differences of their respective traditions but inspired by what the ancient philosophers called the "soul of the world" - this benevolent force that maintains the harmony of the universe…
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Lenoir: The Power of Joy
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"Is there a more desirable experience than that of joy? More intense and deeper than pleasure, more concrete than happiness, joy is the manifestation of our vital power. Joy is not decreed, but can it be tamed? To provoke it? To cultivate it? I would like to propose here a way of self-fulfillment based on the power of joy. A way of liberation and love, to the opposite of the false happiness proposed by our narcissis…
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Lenoir : Wisdom explained to those who seek it
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"You undoubtedly aspire, reader friend, to a successful life. Not necessarily to succeed in life, but to lead a good and happy existence. Ever since, all over the world, men and women have been nourishing this aspiration and working to implement it. Everyone believes that what makes our life meaningful is to grow in humanity. I am convinced that this philosophical ideal of wisdom remains the object of a quest we can…
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Lenoir : Desire, a philosophy
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"To desir life is not simply to be alive. It is to let ourselves be driven by the vital momentum that leads us to create, to love, to overcome us. It is to cultivate the power of desire that is the driving force of our lives. Yet, in everyday life, we feel many limitations - 'I am not capable', 'It is too risky', 'It is not for you' - which inhibit us. We are often also trapped in the impulses of our primary brain, …
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Lenoir : The Spinoza Miracle
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Baruch Spinoza, 23 years old of the Jewish community for heresy, decides to devote his life to philosophy. His objective? To discover a real good that would "provide him for eternity the enjoyment of supreme and incessant joy." During the twenty years remaining to live, Spinoza builds a revolutionary work. How could this man, in the middle of the seventeenth century, be the forerunner of the Enlightenment and our mo…
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Lenoir: The Five Pillars of Wisdom
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"There is an amazing convergence between all the great philosophical and spiritual currents of the world around fundamental qualities to develop in order to lead a good and happy life. This is what I call the 5 pillars of wisdom: knowledge, love, ethics, presence and acceptance. Beyond their cultural or metaphysical differences, the messages of Buddha, Lao-tse, Socrates, Plato, Epicury, Jesus, Epictetus, Rûmi, Monta…
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Lenoir : Meditate with open heart
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"This is the ultimate goal of the art of meditating: to be fully human by harmonising our mind, our body and our heart." Meditation is a thousand-year-old practice used both in the East by Buddhists and in the West by the ancient Greeks, and today validated by scientific research. By developing our attention, it teaches us not only to calm the agitations of our mind but also to broaden our sensory perceptions. In th…
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Lenoir : Socrates, Jesus, Buddha
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The crisis that we are experiencing is not simply economic and financial, but also philosophical and spiritual. It refers to universal questions: What makes the human being happy? What can be considered as real progress? What are the conditions for a harmonious social life?Contains a purely materialistic vision of man and the world, Socrates, Jesus and Buddha are three masters of life. A life that they never lock up…
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Lenoir: Living! in an unpredictable world
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"It was enough to have a far-off virus for the course of the world and our lives to be upset.""I am convinced that nothing will be as before and that we must learn to develop our inner resources in order to live the best possible way in an unpredictable world. May this book written in the urgency of time bring light and comfort to all those who will read it."F. L. In a language accessible to all, Frédéric Lenoir off…
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Lenoir: Small treatise of inner life
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Of all my books of philosophy and spirituality, this one is certainly the most accessible, but probably also the most useful. For it is not a theoretical knowledge that I seek to convey, but a practical knowledge, the most essential one: how to lead a good, happy life, in harmony with oneself and others. What I say here with simple words and concrete examples, as in a conversation with a friend, is the fruit of thir…
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