One of the main inspirations was a talk I attended about ten years ago by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. During the Q&A segment a young woman raised her hand and asked a question that I myself had been grappling with for several years: “We go to many workshops,” she said, “read books on spirituality, and are introduced to many spiritual teachings, but how do we apply all these in our daily living?” This book is a response to this question of how to integrate spiritual teachings into our daily material living.