Between the trial, the Self Help, youth or adult novels. Francesc Miralles is that factotum that shows concerns moved towards diversity of horizons. Making literature of all of them is a virtue as commendable as it is rare.
So considering a selection of the best of Francesc Miralles can end up being limiting with respect to the whole of his work. But each one keeps the best of each creative spirit, such as the case of Miralles. The question is to begin to discover it and then let yourself be carried away towards any of his books, whether they are bestsellers or other more modest circulations that, deep down, always bring that point of freshness of the thinker towards popularization or the creative type committed to fiction as a leash. of transmission.
Coincidentally, it was that unsuspected domino effect of his book "Ikigai", materialized as field work with Héctor García, which catapulted both to world stardom. The unimaginable turning point that ends up having more to do with chance than with marketing. But above all, it has more to do with the will to narrate something relevant than with the forcing of the imagination towards editorial standards...
Top 3 recommended books by Francesc Miralles
Ikigai: Japan's Secrets to a Long and Happy Life
It is true that the Middle West observes the Japanese with an anthropological interest and from there part of the secret of this book. Because fed up with unhealthy lifestyles, from the physical to the spiritual, that aforementioned Middle West yearns for advice from those other human beings who seem to move under patterns of serenity and happiness lost centuries ago by Western man. But it is also that the closeness of this research provides that I don't know what certainty about what we do wrong and what we focus on even worse in our lives.
According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai, a reason for existing. Some have found it and are aware of their ikigai, others have it inside but are still looking for it. This is one of the secrets to a long, young and happy life like the one lived by the inhabitants of Okinawa, the longest living island in the world.
The project for this book arose by combining the experience in Japanese culture of Héctor García (author of Un Geek in Japan), who has been living in Japan for twelve years, with the writing art of Francesc Miralles (author of dozens of books and novels and a specialist in psychology). To write the work, the two authors were received by the mayor of Ogimi (Okinawa), a town in northern Japan with the highest longevity rate in the world, and had access to interview more than a hundred of its inhabitants.
In this new edition of this already classic of personal growth, the authors give us a prologue in which they reflect on all the experiences they have had since the publication of the first edition of Ikigai in 2016.
Having a clear and defined ikigai, a great passion, is something that gives satisfaction, happiness and meaning to life. The mission of this book is to help you find it, in addition to discovering many keys to Japanese philosophy for long-term health of body, mind, and spirit.
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At each new year the purposes of vital amendment lurk for everyone who promised something. Taking the change of year as a symbol, we meet in this story a character between allegorical and mundane with whom we can make the most of coincidences derived from desires and strong wills...
Samuel wakes up on the morning of January 1 with no signs of change in his life. Until a strange visitor breaks into his apartment determined not to abandon him. The appearance of Mishima, a young stray cat, will transform his hermetic world.
Mishima leads him to a strange encounter with Valdemar and his neighbor, Titus, with whom he had never crossed two words. From the two encounters a curious and tender friendship arises that, as if it were magic, will lead him to a fleeting but definitive reunion with the mysterious Gabriela after thirty years.
Samuel is faced for the first time with the opportunity to live intensely the small daily acts, tiny acts that have the power to unleash a hurricane and awaken the heart from its lethargy, and he undertakes his particular and frenetic initiation adventure full of mystery and surprising revelations.
20 existential questions
We would be fifteen years old. We were resting in some remote corner of the town with hardly any light. We, the group of friends, and the stars. Until someone raised one of those first existential questions of adulthood, surely the most existential of all... Is the universe infinite? We face the transcendent from the comic on that occasion. Then come many other existential questions that, already in solitude, each one must face when they appear, as suddenly as that August night of my fifteen years.
There are a number of questions that everyone asks at some point in their life. The quality of our thoughts and decisions, as well as our own existence, will depend on the answers we know how to give them. Francesc Miralles, author of great international success, answers in this book the twenty questions that have marked his life, and answers each one with the help of philosophers, writers and spiritual guides, as well as his own experience in the art of wonder.
Fresh, funny and well documented, in the words of Francesc Miralles, this is the book that he would have liked to have throughout his different existential crises. The twenty questions that structure it are the greatest hits of the issues that concern us as human beings, with the answers and reflections that will allow us to open new windows in the art of living.
