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Publisher: Avery
Publication: September 20, 2016
384 Pages
After reading this book I found a better understanding of Joy. What brings me joy can be different than from what brings other people joy. This book follows His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu as they share an emotional and intimate couple of days together discussing what brings them joy and celebrating the 80th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The question that was being explored is “How do we find joy in the face of life’s inevitable suffering?”
While reading we get to learn more about the sacrifices and suffering that His Holiness and Archbishop had gone through in their lives, but instead of being bitter and angry at the world, they learned to find joy in their lives and take everything they had gone through as a lesson. While reading, I’ve learned that joy is not in materialistic things, or positive situations and that not all bad situations are well… bad. I’ve learned that in order to find joy, I will want to look within myself and find peace. I’ve felt a calming presence while reading, I even re-read passages because I felt it touch my soul.
“There are going to be frustrations in life. The Question is not: How can I escape it? It is: How can I use this as something positive” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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