The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XKPBD1D |
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| Number of Pages | : | 514 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Along for the ride are the Pope's overwhelmed cousin Paolo and his estranged wife, Rosa, an eccentric hairdresser with a lust for life who cannot resist the call to adventure - or the fun. What happens when the Pope and the Dalai Lama decide they need an undercover vacation? During a highly publicized official visit at the Vatican, the Pope suggests an adventure so unexpected and appealing that neither man can resist. Before dawn, two of the most beloved and famous people on the planet don disguises, slip into a waiting car, and experience the countryside as regular people. Against a landscape of good humor, exploration and spiritual delight, not to mention the sublime rolling hills of Italy, The Delight of Being Ordinary showcases the charming sensibilities of Roland Merullo (whose best-selling Breakfast with Buddha has sold over 200,000 copies) in a novel that makes us laugh as well as think about the demands of ordinary life, spiritual life, and the identities by which we all define ourselves.. Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable
A Delight and Hardly Ordinary Here is classic Merullo. Master of the road-trip narrative, he has reached new heights here by employing The Pope and the Dalai Lama as two of his main characters, men of tremendous wisdom and intellectual power thrust into the daily life of Italy. This exposes not only their goodness but. "I recognized myself in thought, word, and deed" according to Jennifer Culver. I was delighted to recognize my own thoughts, feeling, beliefs, and wonders printed in a recognizable way. Baptized and raised Catholic and also deeply respecting and practicing many of the beautiful ways of Buddhism, I felt like the author was myself in thought. Although more beautifully. A quiet & eloquent gem. For fans of the "Meals with Buddha" series, this book rounds out the storyline. Behind the tale flow themes of fascism and its fallout, and the world's need for balance of male/female energies. But even more obviously, The Delight of Being Ordinary is just that.