{"product_id":"9781585429004","title":"Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034924007664,"sku":"9781585429004","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781585429004_p0.jpg?v=1763789311","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781585429004","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}