Short Synopsis
Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? How can we feel happy and free? The answers to these and other life questions are gathered in Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Life's Hard Questions.

Full Synopsis
The Web site Tiny Buddha began as a quote-a-day Twitter account, @tinybuddha, in 2008. Lori Deschene's daily wisdom posts about mindfulness, nonattachment, and happiness became so popular that she now has more than 200,000 Twitter followers who share quotes and stories about inspiration in their daily lives.

Deschene asked her Twitter followers to contribute their thoughts and perspectives on the difficult questions that influence how we live our everyday lives: thoughts about the meaning of life, pain, happiness, fate, and more.

Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Life's Hard Questions is a combination of the amazing responses that she received along with her own insightful essays, and insights from wise teachers around the world and throughout time. Deschene explores how these issues have played out in her own life and offers action-oriented suggestions to help people empower themselves, even in a world with so much uncertainty. The result is a guide that helps listeners discover the endless possibilities for a life lived mindfully in the present and connected to others.

"This fresh, practical guide to mindfulness and meaning will resonate with those facing the grim financial outlook, the vagaries of online dating, and the pressures and boons of social media." ---Booklist

"Lori Deschene doesn't claim to be anybody's guru. But it's that lack of pretense and her total candor---how she tells her own often-wild story without flinching---that is so magnetic, inviting a sense of ease with our own wrinkles, too, and fostering a sense of personal possibility." ---Margaret Roach, author of And I Shall Have Some Peace There

"There's nothing tiny about the extra-large dose of awesome stuffed into Lori's writing." ---Neil Pasricha, author of The Book of Awesome

"[An] engaging, thought-provoking book." ---Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project