A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

For more than half a century in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lamarsquos Little Book of Inner Peace the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives In A Force for Good with the help of his longtime friend Daniel Goleman the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence the Dalai Lama explains how to turn our compassionate energy outward This revelatory and inspiring work provides a singular vision for transforming the world in practical and positive ways Much more than just the most prominent exponent of Tibetan Buddhism the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is also a futurist who possesses a profound understanding of current events and a remarkable canniness for modern social issues When he takes the stage worldwide people listen A Force for Good combines the central concepts of the Dalai Lama empirical evidence that supports them and true stories of people who are putting his ideas into actionmdashshowing how harnessing positive energies and directing them outward has lasting and meaningful effects Goleman details the science of compassion and how this singular guiding motivation has the power to bull break such destructive social forces as corruption collusion and bias bull heal the planet by refocusing our concerns toward our impact on the systems that support all life bull reverse the tendency toward systemic inequity through transparency and accountability bull replace violence with dialogue bull counter us-and-them thinking by recognizing human oneness bull create new economic systems that work for everyone not just the powerful and rich bull design schooling that teaches empathy self-mastery and ethics Millions of people have turned to the Dalai Lama for his unparalleled insight into living happier more purposeful lives Now when the world needs his guidance more than ever he shows how every compassion-driven human actmdashno matter how smallmdashis integral for a more peaceful harmonious world building a force for a better future Revelatory motivating and highly persuasive A Force for Good is arguably the most important work from one of the worldrsquos most influential spiritual and political figures.