The Art of Happiness

and of course I found his examples of how heimplemented these principles in his own life to beinspiring. But as I thought back over our series ofdiscussions, beginning in Arizona and nowcontinuing in India, I realized that right from thebeginning our interviews had taken on a clinicaltone, as if I were asking him about humananatomy, only in this case, it was the anatomy ofthe human mind and spirit. Until that moment,however, somehow it hadn’t occurred to me toapply his ideas fully to my own life, at least notright now—I always had a vague intention oftrying to implement his ideas in my life at somepoint in the future, perhaps when I had moretime.