"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
~The Dalai Lama
I recently started reading How to See Yourself as You Really Are by the Dalai Lama. My interest was piqued by chapter titles such as "Discovering the Source of Problems", "Focusing Your Mind" and "Reflecting on Impermanence".
Winner of the Nobel Peace Price, the Dalai Lama also wrote The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, which was published in 1998. Psychiatrist Howard Cutler presents meaningful questions about life, living and the pursuit of happiness, receiving answers that are philosophical and poignant, filled with compassion and kindness. Cutler includes his psychological aspects from his own training and practice, but the Dalai Lama is truly able to convey his thoughts and beliefs in an uncomplicated and universal way. You don't have to be a Buddhist to appreciate that inner peace is in our nature. Sometimes you just have to find it.
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