What’s it about:

A delightful book of spiritual quotes on how to feel balanced in a demanding and competitive world.

What Lynn learned:

• We can make the active choice to be less busy and relent to frantic standards. This can come from a balanced mindful place within.

• A book has the ability to ooze healing and calmness and by just reading this book I felt comforted.

• Being a role model for kind behaviour and compassionate thinking has the ability to shape, not only your own life, but impact positively on those around you.

• This is a hard lesson…. But happiness really does come from within.

Fave quotes:

• “When people who don't know you well admire you, they are seeing their projected illusion, not your real self. In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.”

• “We know the world only through the window of our mind. When our mind is noisy, the world is as well. And when our mind is peaceful, the world is, too. Knowing our minds is just as important as trying to change the world.”

• “Life isn’t a hundred-meter race against your friends, but a lifelong marathon against yourself.”

• “There are many more ordinary hours in life than extraordinary ones. We wait in line at the supermarket. We spend hours commuting to work. We water our plants and feed our pets. Happiness means finding a moment of joy in those ordinary hours.”

Why relevant right now:

We all suffer from the anxieties of everyday life – this is the antidote.

Interest factor: 4/5

Coffee table cred: 3/5

Ignorance of external world while reading: 4/5

Book cover design: 3/5

Help the existential crisis: 5/5