The art of happiness
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing or at
least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him
feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and
temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an
increasingly popular speaker and statesman. Why is he
so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in
his presence you can't help feeling happier. If you ask
him if he's happy, even though he's suffered the loss of
his country, the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional
yes. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the
purpose of life, and that “the very motion of our life is
towards happiness". How to get there has always been
the question. He's tried to answer it before, but he's never
had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in
a context we can easily understand.
LAMA, D.; CUTLER, H. The Art of Happiness: a handbook for living. Putnam Books, 1998.
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