I loved that it wasn’t just focused on the religious aspects but there was also time put aside to develop your own skills and to get involved in the local community too. Huge thanks to Tandem Collective for letting me join your read-along and all the lovely fellow blogger’s for all the great discussions. We have no control over what pops into our minds, but we can control whether we believe them or not. Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, a former forest monk in Thailand, relates his experience of training to properly direct his thoughts which can benefit all. Whether it’s on a Summer’s night on the deck overlooking the ocean or in the magical Adelaide Hills mist in the middle of winter, we`ve put together a list of ultimate SA bathtub experience.

I May Be Wrong was an instant number one bestseller in Sweden, and won both the Adlibris and Storytel Award for Best Non-Fiction.I don’t trust life inherently, but I do trust my capacity to change, because I know how much I’ve changed – or rather learnt to understand myself better so I can stop repeating unhealthy behaviour. Goodness me, in a book about mindfulness, compassion, and the life of a forest monk, surely they could have found a better simile than that.

That was one of the reasons we didn’t handle money, weren’t allowed to choose when or what we ate, who we lived with or which hut we slept in. This is a book I’ll be recommending to everyone as it’s been such an outstanding, inspiring read for me. But thinking back on all those times people/I thought of me as irresponsible, and all those times when I felt other people were irresponsible – both causing much internal suffering in me – I realised most of the time, it is not that people choose to be irresponsible.

As this novel was penned by a successful corporate executive who had been dissatisfied with his professional life for a while, it will appeal to those questioning why their career is not enough. And here I will refrain from telling you what happens next because it underlines exactly why the book and the precise way it is written makes it important. They cannot handle money, so they rely on alms from the generosity of the public, which means they eat anything that people donate.

Finally, you have to be aware that the book was written in 2003, a couple of years after his retirement, and in the early 2000s, just before Lebron was picked in the NBA draft. How Emotions Are Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind.I found it interesting how he took the lessons he learnt from his life as a monk back into 'everyday' life in Sweden. He thinks there is this uncomfortable stigma that surrounds race relations that if we brought it to light that we could start tearing down the wall. I absolutely loved listening to this book, a fascinating life told so beautifully, with humour and humility, a real feeling of calm comes through the pages, what a wonderful book.

By the end, almost every page was folded and marked ' TELEGRAPH 'A book of some brilliance' DAILY MAIL 'Genuinely stays with you . Infusing the everyday with heart and grace, this is a wise and soothing handbook for dealing with life's challenges. Plain and simple, it's about how to relate to your own thoughts and emotions in a way that makes your life more enjoyable, more free, brighter. That's a good thing to try to remember - we seem to be so certain of everything so it's worth wondering if you are actually right - you might be wrong.There's no dirt to be dished, which I appreciate so much, and there is a lot of Michael and Tiger (like a whole lot), but overall, a solid look at what's going on in the mind of Charles Barkley at any given time. They lust after flight attendants, they laugh, they watch the Matrix, have opinions about Led Zeppelin and Winnie the Pooh. The term applies though because, as I understand it (and I may be wrong) the term forest monastery refers to a concept / ideology / tradition / denomination / family as much as it does to the location of the building. What I value most from my seventeen years of full-time spiritual training is that I no longer believe my every thought.