Chris's review
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
by Dalai Lama XIV
I agree. That book should have been better than it was.
Chris's review
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama XIV
Chris's review
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I tried to read this book in 2001 and again in 2008. I just can't do it. I like the idea of this book - a western psychologist's conversations with the Dali Lama - but it just doesn't work for me. Here are the two things that happen when I try to read it:
1- The psychologist sets up questions to the Dali Lama that I want to answer myself so my mind trails off and I think about my own answer rather than read the one in the book.
2- It gets too self-helpy and I can't do it. I am fine with working through psychological problems, but the way it's presented here sometimes just isn't interesting to me.
1- The psychologist sets up questions to the Dali Lama that I want to answer myself so my mind trails off and I think about my own answer rather than read the one in the book.
2- It gets too self-helpy and I can't do it. I am fine with working through psychological problems, but the way it's presented here sometimes just isn't interesting to me.
I agree. That book should have been better than it was.