Momma and the Meaning of Life by Irvin D. Yalom

Take the idea of yourself, your inner life and bring it to a common fireplace where people share their existence, cook their food, eat and relax. Your deepest thoughts that you don't even want to admit to yourself feel free to mingle amidst the flames.  Their presence is open to the public there.

Everyone, who opens this book, enters the world of sincerity and open-heartedness which is not only flowing from the therapeutic patients but also the therapist himself. The insightful, yet very humane, attitude of the narration allows the readers to dwell in the minds of others, somehow feeling closer to the world, closer to themselves and less stressed.

The common fireplace is full of people like we are. It feels good to know that.

The language of this book is warm and gentle. It doesn't intimidate the reader with some sophisticated psychiatric terms and word rope dancing, yet it certainly is not simplistic.

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