The Art of Happiness

Book Reviews

This book can give you an entirely different outlook on happiness and how to achieve it. I recommend it highly.

-- Andrew Weil, M.D.

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Always Intriguing, even funny and mostly calming, you just might be surprised at how your perspective changes as you read this book.

-- USA Today

Provocative and moving.

-- Publishers Weekly

Provides comfort for us working stiffs.

-- Time

In "The Art of Happiness", the Dalai Lama makes the serene principles of Buddhism accessible to the masses. The tome's simple principle -- that one can actually train the mind to be happy -- seems to be striking a chord with frazzled readers everywhere.

-- Publishers Weekly

The discussion is surprisingly light on citations of Buddhist doctrine, relying mainly on the Dalai Lama's profound good sense and compassion, and Dr. Cutler's experience with patients and friends, so the advice here is highly accessible even to those with little or no familiarity with Buddhism. A smart, kind, hopeful book.

-- Yoga Journal

Over and over again, Cutler poses complicated psychological inquiries only to have the Dalai Lama offer responses that reach far beyond the parameters of the self. There really is such a thing as an art of happiness, and this is one of the best how-to books a reader will ever find.

--Booklist

The Dalai Lama refreshingly claims no unusual spiritual powers. He identifies himself as an ordinary man, prone to the same troubles as the rest of us, but one who has learned something about conquering the impulses that make us unhappy.

--New York Times

"The Art of Happiness at Work", like its predecessor, is a report of conversations between psychiatrist Howard Cutler and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Their first collaboration, "The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living" was a bestseller, and prompted many questions for the author about how the art of happiness could be cultivated in the face of so many day-to-day difficulties.

--Shambhala Sun

Practical achievement should be exhilarating, the Nobel laureate says, as long as work is a calling -- whether that calling is to serve others, work in government or provide for family by practicing corporate law.

--Time (Global Business Supplement)

This website pertains to and explores the essential principles of The Art of Happiness with articles and research on Neuroscience and Positive Psychology for practical application. It does not relate to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's history, the Buddhist religion, or the political situation in Tibet. For more information on those topics please visit The Dalai Lama official website at: www.dalailama.com