How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existence

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Summary: Wisdom for the True Insiders
Review: Tim Miller's book is the Real Thing: a synthesis of the best of a multitude of religious and philosophical traditions which is directly applicable to twenty-first century everyday life.

Its language is clear; its ideas are sound; and despite its initial burst of success, it has temporarily gone out of print. This is a catastrophic loss since Miller is so clear-eyed, pragmatic, objective, and honest. His directions for practicing a life of Compassion, Attention, and Gratitude are as profound as they are simple and understandable.

I reread a few pages of Miller each evening to keep me focused.

Miller is not into giving seminars or proselytizing. In a sense, this is unfortunate: his ideas could transform our modern moral landscape more powerfully than virtually any of the other "movements" of our era.

Walter Kaufmann is my hero for academic philosophizing; Tim Miller is my hero for bread-and-butter daily living.

Ye who have ears to hear and eyes to see: get with it, dude!