Read and shift your reality.
Two enlightened souls, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu engage in a playful discourse of life’s serious questions with humility, gratitude, and humor. They answer questions about the human struggles of purpose, conflict, violence, oppression, and injustice. Time after time, the answers emerge the significance of compassion.
Lots of books talk about the values we should follow to make a meaningful life. This pair, considered to be spiritual masters by many do the same in this book, but with a very important twist. For each value they inspire us to consider in response to injustice, they share how they have lived through something similar in a real life incident. They provide details of the conflict, their response of how they handled it, and what the outcome was. They also speak of how their philosophies correlate with ancient wisdom on one hand and modern scientific research on the other.
The dialog between the two giants of philosophical inspiration relate their values to those of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. They also speak of physicists, physicians, and neurology researchers’ findings to live healthier lives by the practices of meditation, communal-ties, and kindness.
This book is an eclectic mix of inspiration, fragility, compassion, and reality. It is uplifting and provocative, it challenges and it teaches — all together simultaneously.