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Love the Dalai! Enjoyed the first half more than the second, but all in all an insightful read.
loved it! read with a pen in hand...underline.....let it sink in!
Truly inspirational. There's no dogma here, just calm and gentle advice and discussion on techniques for living your life thoughtfully and dealing with negative emotions, situations and people constructively. Warm, wise and really rather wonderful.
* I apologize for the english, I'm not a native speaker
Unfortunetly I didn't read this book in a right time, so I feel like I didn't absorb as much as I could have.
What I really liked about this book is that even though I don't undestand much of psychiatry I shared a lot of Cutlers questions and frustations. As a social scientist i really enjoyed having the perspective of a ocidental mind and oriental mind.
Sometimes its hard to understand the perspectives of His Holiness about society and the world, but I think that the most important subject of the book is to show the way of happiness that lives within ourselves. We live in a world that is so agitaded and is in constant change, and that frustates us a lot. Dalai Lama enlightens us by showing that it is possible exercising our minds by having faith in any religion or by having faith only in ourselves.
I'm really divided by this book because at the same time that I undestand a lot of what Dalai Lama says, and his perspective in so many subjects, I try to see in the bigger picture and some of his perspective seems to me a little far away from reality.
Unfortunetly I didn't read this book in a right time, so I feel like I didn't absorb as much as I could have.
What I really liked about this book is that even though I don't undestand much of psychiatry I shared a lot of Cutlers questions and frustations. As a social scientist i really enjoyed having the perspective of a ocidental mind and oriental mind.
Sometimes its hard to understand the perspectives of His Holiness about society and the world, but I think that the most important subject of the book is to show the way of happiness that lives within ourselves. We live in a world that is so agitaded and is in constant change, and that frustates us a lot. Dalai Lama enlightens us by showing that it is possible exercising our minds by having faith in any religion or by having faith only in ourselves.
I'm really divided by this book because at the same time that I undestand a lot of what Dalai Lama says, and his perspective in so many subjects, I try to see in the bigger picture and some of his perspective seems to me a little far away from reality.
How do we stay happy at work? In our fast-paced world when work seeps into every aspect of our lives, we are seeing more and more people that are unhappy with work or that have little satisfaction in their jobs. If we aren't happy or satisfied with what we spend more than half our lives doing, what does this say about us as individuals?
From learning to get along with the people we work with and going through periods of dissatisfaction and disappointment with work to dealing with what motivates us at work (financial aspects, social status, or work as a calling), the Dalai Lama XIV challenges us to answer this question: Where does work fit into our overall quest for happiness?
If the purpose of life is happiness and happiness is determined by our state of mind, rather than external events, then the key to happiness is in our hands. We are all capable of finding happiness with work once we know what is in our hearts and what brings us the most satisfaction.
We have the freedom to choose how we look at our careers and how we deal with co-workers. Balance and attitude are instrumental in finding a purpose in our career, and how to balance our work life within the context of our entire life.
Rather than looking for something that suits us, we should look for situations that come from who we are and what is most important to us as individuals.
Best Takeaway Quotes:
"We should take special care to pay attention to the human relationships at work, how we interact with one another, and try to maintain basic human values, even at work.... Be a good person, a kind person. Relate to others with warmth, human affection, with honesty and sincerity. Compassion."
"The general view of productive activity has to do with somehow making an impact on one's environment, producing something, or accomplishing something in the world. It seems to be more outer directed, accomplishing things that can be measured or quantified."
"Although it is not always easy, nor even always possible, we must to do our best to assure that our work brings some benefit to others. For the Dalai Lama, that is the surest way to force an unbreakable bond between our work and the deep and lasting happiness that we all seek."
From learning to get along with the people we work with and going through periods of dissatisfaction and disappointment with work to dealing with what motivates us at work (financial aspects, social status, or work as a calling), the Dalai Lama XIV challenges us to answer this question: Where does work fit into our overall quest for happiness?
If the purpose of life is happiness and happiness is determined by our state of mind, rather than external events, then the key to happiness is in our hands. We are all capable of finding happiness with work once we know what is in our hearts and what brings us the most satisfaction.
We have the freedom to choose how we look at our careers and how we deal with co-workers. Balance and attitude are instrumental in finding a purpose in our career, and how to balance our work life within the context of our entire life.
Rather than looking for something that suits us, we should look for situations that come from who we are and what is most important to us as individuals.
Best Takeaway Quotes:
"We should take special care to pay attention to the human relationships at work, how we interact with one another, and try to maintain basic human values, even at work.... Be a good person, a kind person. Relate to others with warmth, human affection, with honesty and sincerity. Compassion."
"The general view of productive activity has to do with somehow making an impact on one's environment, producing something, or accomplishing something in the world. It seems to be more outer directed, accomplishing things that can be measured or quantified."
"Although it is not always easy, nor even always possible, we must to do our best to assure that our work brings some benefit to others. For the Dalai Lama, that is the surest way to force an unbreakable bond between our work and the deep and lasting happiness that we all seek."
I don't know what possessed me to buy this book. I'm not a crunchy-granola type, and books with titles like this make me cringe. But I found it on my bookshelf as I was randomly picking out books to read and thought, "Yeah, like this is going to be good."
I was pleasantly surprised. Mostly what I got out of it was "These things don't always help everyone." Really? Really? "If you help 70% of your patients, then you're doing well." It's okay to do your best, and if it doesn't work, don't worry. It's okay; you tried.
Compassion is the key. Compassion and caring for other people. It will probably be difficult for me (or anyone, really) to have that much compassion but it's something to work toward. And if I do it 70% of the time, then, hey, it's okay.
I was pleasantly surprised. Mostly what I got out of it was "These things don't always help everyone." Really? Really? "If you help 70% of your patients, then you're doing well." It's okay to do your best, and if it doesn't work, don't worry. It's okay; you tried.
Compassion is the key. Compassion and caring for other people. It will probably be difficult for me (or anyone, really) to have that much compassion but it's something to work toward. And if I do it 70% of the time, then, hey, it's okay.
hopeful
medium-paced
Fault is Cutler, not the Dalai Lama
fast-paced
This was great! It was definitely a psychological book rather than a book about Buddhism, so you can pick it up if you would like to see a bit of how the Dalia lama thinks without being interested in Buddhism.
I found it really strange though because although the psychologist mentions a lot of studies and things there are no notes or references? Maybe I’ve just been indoctrinated by university but it just felt very wrong
I found it really strange though because although the psychologist mentions a lot of studies and things there are no notes or references? Maybe I’ve just been indoctrinated by university but it just felt very wrong
I really struggled to read this. It has lots of interesting, and important, lessons, but something about the writing made it feel like a struggle for me. The chapters are all very long, and it felt like the author took 3 pages to say something that could be said in one.