{"product_id":"9781101554142","title":"Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"As founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center  in New York, Allan Lokos has an arsenal of tools for coping with  stressful situations.\" - Rachel Lee Harris, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo survive the roller-coaster ride of life, with its ever-changing  shifts from pleasure to pain, gain to loss, and praise to blame, requires  a substantial depth of patience. In this life-changing book, Allan Lokos  sheds new light on this much-sought-after state of mind, and provides a  road map for cultivating greater patience in one's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Lokos, to develop a depth of patience we must first  acknowledge the unhappiness caused by our impatience and anger in its  many manifestations-from mild annoyance to rage. In this revelatory book,  Lokos draws on his many years as a Buddhist practitioner and spiritual  teacher, as well as interviews with a wide range of individuals who have  had their patience tested-often dramatically so-and lays out a compelling  path to the heart of patience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119173026032,"sku":"9781101554142","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101554142_p0.jpg?v=1763688190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101554142","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}