The Outward Path: The Wisdom of the Aztecs

$29.99 at de Young Museum.

A practical and eye-opening guide to the Aztec philosophy on how to live. The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness but the pursuit of what they called ‘neltiliztli’: a life in truth. Our world, they held, is a “slippery” one—a place where it is easy to make mistakes and be unwell. A true life avoids slipping by pursuing a communitarian solution, beginning with the formation of relationships and growing deep roots and later moving inward to still the…