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Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love, and Happiness

10 best books like Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love, and Happiness (Dalai Lama XIV): Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Love, Lucy, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Black Hole, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation, Asterix the Gaul, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Being Peace, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0553351397
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be...
Love, Lucy
AuthorLucille Ball
ISBN0425177319
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed by TV Guide as the "#1 Greatest TV Star of All Time."

Love, Lucy is the valentine Lucille Ball left for her fans--a warm, wise, and witty memoir written by Lucy herself. The legendary star...
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
AuthorEd Brubaker
ISBN1534308466
The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE.

Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie...
Black Hole
AuthorCharles Burns
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0807012394
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware. From washing the dishes to answering the phone to peeling an orange, he reminds us that each moment holds within...
Asterix the Gaul
AuthorRené Goscinny
ISBN0752866052

A kindred spirit...


Family portrait.


Sport/recreation/favorite pastime.

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For those not familiar with the Asterix comics, let me give you a bit of background, both personal and general.

Let me start with Julius Caesar.
We...
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1590306759
In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the essence of Buddhist thought and practice, emphasizing the power of mindfulness to transform our lives. “Mindfulness is not an evasion or an escape,” he explains. “It means being here, present,...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1573225681
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
Being Peace
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077007
Being Peace

I keep Thich Naht Hanh's books in my book case
but anymore I do not read them.

I think of him often, ever since he had a stroke.
He made it though, but I can't find out how he is.
As far as I know he is still alive
and still a very wise but old man.

Some days...
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
AuthorGene Wilder
ISBN0312337078
Gene Wilder was one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970's and 1980's in movies. From his early work with Woody Allen to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilder's performances are still discussed and celebrated today. Kiss Me Like...
The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
AuthorAlex Banayan
ISBN0804136661
The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.

The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented...
Anonymous
AuthorUzodinma Iweala
Welcome back to America! For a man trapped in the Homeland Security machine, passing through customs becomes a nightmarish odyssey in this story by the author of Beasts of No Nation.

He’s a well-traveled consultant arriving home at a metropolitan airport. He’s also become accustomed...
Your Best Brain: The Science of Brain Improvement
AuthorJohn Medina
Inside your head sits the most complex object in the known universe - the human brain. This amazing organ has unique powers to make predictions about the future, form relationships with other people, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, and so much more. We all have a basic conception of how our...
Rebelión 20.06.19
AuthorJavier Miró
«Edición conmemorativa en formato bolsillo revisada y reeditada con motivo del día de la Rebelión: 20.06.19. Con prólogo del editor: Rafael Velis».

En el año 2024 Madrid no es una ciudad, sólo un montón de ruinas donde no hay ciudadanos, sólo supervivientes. No hay comida, ni agua,...
The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
AuthorThomas M. Sterner
ISBN0977657205
Present moment awareness is an essential ingredient in life if one expects to experience any degree of authentic peace and contentment. It has been acknowledged for centuries as the cornerstone of spiritual awakening in all traditions of Eastern thought. In the West, however, it is still a relatively...
Cosmografía general (Estación nº 6)
AuthorLaura Ponce
Desde 1915, con la publicación de la Relatividad General, decir pasado se parece a decir presente y a decir futuro. Ya no hay flecha del tiempo, ya no hay adelante y atrás, y los relojes pueden derretirse.

En los cuentos de Cosmografía general, Laura Ponce opta por hacer pie en el futuro y doblarlo...
Estrella distante
AuthorFernandez
ISBN8417247092
Leí Estrella Distante hace años, es el único libro de Bolaño que leí completo; y me fascinó. Pero con el tiempo, sólo recordaba una escena (alguien muere por rescatar a una mujer) que en esta novela gráfica no encontré.

Es muy extraño: ni siquiera recordaba la trama de Estrella Distante,...
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