This deceptively simple little book contains three secrets— three prescriptions from this self-described “happiness doctor”—which are at once obvious and profoundly life-changing. A pioneer in the personal growth field and a lifelong peace advocate, Ken Keyes, Jr. was the author of fifteen books—including his famous Handbook to Higher Consciousness and The Hundredth Monkey—with four million copies in print in at least seven languages.

Dr. Wayne Dyer credits Keyes as the person who “literally got me started on this glorious transformational journey.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, put Keyes’s influence this way: “Ken Keyes…teaches us how to be truly human through the power of unconditional love. Our hope for survival depends on learning to love ourselves and one another unconditionally—and he shows us how.”

Though polio confined him to a wheelchair as a quadriplegic at age 27, he saw his life as having been enriched by the disease—“because without it, I don’t think I’d have discovered the personal growth methods that have meant so much to me. I view my so-called ‘handicap’ as another gift my life has offered me.”