Enlightening book with personal anecdotes with enough pithy, punk, real life humor to keep me going. Less of a spiritual book and more of day to day practices to unload the baggage we're carrying around in our heads.

THIS. BOOK. RULES. Honestly. If you've never tried meditation, don't know the first thing about yoga, think inner peace sounds like some hippie bullsh*t...or if you were born in lotus pose, are practically a walking bodhisattva, have read every translation of the Yoga Sutras...this book is for YOU. Miguel Chen explains why we humans suffer and how we can ease that suffering in such a down-to-earth, relatable, at times hilarious and at times heartbreaking way, that every single person in the universe can get something really valuable out of this book. It was an easy, engrossing read, and contains simple but profound little experiments to really illustrate the points he's trying to get across. I want to buy a copy of this for every person I know, and even for people I don't know.

This is one of the best self-help books that I have read, as the other turned traditional Buddhist practices into something that anyone can understand and incorporate into their life. I also really enjoyed reading about letting go of the past and moving forward.