Smiling is the Best Answer

88 Paths to Asian Serenity

  • Easily applicable everyday examples of Asian life philosophy
  • For self-coaching, as enriching holiday reading, or as a gift
  • Bernhard Moestl: total circulation of well over 500,000 copies

How to Forget Stress, Banish the Blues, and Master Everyday Life


It is the little things that give life a decisive direction. To structure everyday life, brighten one’s thoughts, and find inner peace, neither expert knowledge nor great effort is required. In 88 stories and anecdotes, the experienced coach and bestselling author Bernhard Moestl brings Asian life philosophy to the point in an entertaining and striking way: often a small thing is enough – sometimes it only takes a smile.

Contact Foreign Rights

Rights Guides

Rights sold to

Czech Rep.: Dobrovsky

  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 04.11.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-78754-0
  • 256 Pages
  • Author: Bernhard Moestl
Buchcover von Smiling is the Best Answer: 88 Wege asiatischer Gelassenheit
Bernhard Moestl Smiling is the Best Answer
Portrait von Bernhard Moestl
© Stefan Gavrilescu
Bernhard Moestl

Bernhard Moestl, born in 1970 in Vienna, lived in Asia for many years. He gives leadership seminars and coaches under the brand name brainworx internationally and is the author of many successful works of non-fiction. He gathered most of the important experiences for his life and his thoughts during his stay in the famous Shaolin monastery in the Chinese province Henan, where he lived with the monks and studied their daily routine and the power of their thoughts. He used this knowledge for his books and seminars. www.moestl.com