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    Happiness - it's Now or Never
    Happiness - it's Now or Never
    Happiness - it's Now or Never
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    Happiness - it's Now or Never

    By Peter Harris

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    This book is about loving your life and becoming Happy Now.
    It's a convenient but hard-to-accept fact that happiness is not to be found by trying even harder to get what we want, but by opening up to our Here and Now, which we can enjoy right now. Anything we get after that is a bonus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Harris
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301680399
    Happiness - it's Now or Never
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    Peter Harris

    I am sometimes known (by those who approve of wizards) as The Wizard of Eutopia. I live in The Story Ark, an old army barracks on the main road of Kaiwaka, 'The Little Town of Lights' - blink and you miss it, only at night you can't because it has fairy lights everywhere. For twelve years I've been building, also on the main road (well, a little to one side of it), a sculptured ferrocement 'folly' called Café Eutopia. What is Eutopia and why should you care? Well, it's an organic café, a temple to Love Beauty Truth and Freedom, and a bookshop - not necessarily in that order. See photos. For lots more, taken by tourists from all over the world, just enter 'Cafe Eutopia' in Google images. The tourists love me; the locals keep asking, 'When's he going to finish the darned thing?' Unbeknown to them, for even more than those twelve years I've also been building a much more ambitious, unseen 'folly' - a fantasy epic named (in a dream after I failed to come up with a title) THE APPLES OF AEDEN. I've also written a few other books, as you can see - fiction, non-fiction and some in between. To release the writing from the computer screen (and beat the gatekeepers of traditional publishing)I started a digital printshop and developed a quick method of book-binding, and more recently, embossing and 'edge-carving' antique-fantasy-style books (and, at the other end of the book spectrum, ebook uploading). I spent much of my earlier life, like many of us in the troubled 'post-everything' West, in an angsty quest for Truth (between enterprises intended to feed us but always threatening to consume us - spinning wheels, clocks, oval picture frames). A teen convert to radical Christianity, I thought I should become a Bible translator, so I got a BA in classical Hebrew and Greek. But in the process I 'lost my faith' (quite rationally I think!)and became an angsty agnostic. To feed a growing family, I tried to focus on the oval frames and sacrificed a few tormented years on the anvil of manufacturing, much of it in a cold, dickensian defunct woollen mills in Dunedin. Upon reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I had an epiphany which saved our business. But in 1990, just when we had paid off my father-in-law and even started to make some money, the rubberband of my soul (I felt) was stretched to breaking point, and I had to leave the workshops of the North where we had moved, and go to the City to study ...

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      Happiness - it's Now or Never - Peter Harris

      Happiness

      -It’s Now or Never!

      By Peter Harris

      Aka the Wizard of Eutopia

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      A PersonalEpiphany of the secret of Here and Now - the Secret of all true happiness - and probably also, funnily enough, success, and even fame, ‘that elusive bauble’ (to quote Captain Jas. Hook) that got us running down that endless corridor of discontent, unhappiness and overwork in the first place.

      How You Too can Be Here Now, and be happy no matter what: no bogus conditions, no delays, no excuses!

      The Three Rules to Be Happy Now and live in a state of ‘Eutopia’, a ‘Good Place’.

      Illustrations, text copyright © Peter Harris 2013

      Box 37 Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand

      Ph 09 4312 178

      Cell 022 332 6568

      Email wizardofeutopia@gmail.com

      www.wizardofeutopia.com

      www.howtobeawizard.com

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