“The whole journey of life is a journey from ignorance to knowledge, from fear to love,” says Frédéric Lenoir. To accompany us on this journey, he offers this Brief Treatise on the Inner Life.

This little gem focuses on the most practical of all knowledge: how to lead a good life, in harmony with ourselves and others, joyful and serene. Why cultivate the inner life? Simply because happiness is based on working on oneself and not on the external aspects of our existence or on mere utilitarian knowledge.

Through simple messages and concrete examples, and with a fresh style, as if it were a conversation between friends, Lenoir points out the keys to universal wisdom discovered over more than thirty years of reading – of thinkers such as Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Socrates, Epicurus, Montaigne, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Epictetus – and also from his own personal journey, which has led him to investigate Eastern and Western philosophy, as well as various currents of psychology.