Toward Wisdom: Finding Our Way to Inner Peace, Love and Happiness

Robert B. MacIntyre is head of the Psychoeducational Clinic at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

On the path toward becoming a fully aware human being it is delightful
to meet others traveling the road toward what Macdonald calls
“wisdom.” This book describes the author’s transformation from a
narrowly focused engineer who knew he had the answers to a more broadly
aware human being who advocates the cultivation of widely focused
attention and letting go of wanting as a way of achieving contentment.
Although the book discusses a variety of practices that can lead to
increased wisdom and contentment, there is no evangelizing beyond the
author’s insistence that, as individuals and as a culture, we need to
evolve from being need-based to being “wisdom oriented.” Macdonald
writes well and is able to present ideas from psychology and Eastern
thought in a straightforward systems framework. Readers will find in
this book many ideas that will assist them in their quest for personal
growth.