Description
Most
of us spend our lives chasing our dreams – happiness, love, good health,
financial freedom, security and more.
But can we really have it all?
On a cool November morning, Gaur Gopal Das arrives in Jaisalmer to attend
his friend Rakesh Arora’s son’s three-day-long wedding festivities where he
meets the Arora clan and the soon-to-be bride’s family. As the wedding day
approaches and an unexpected visitor makes an appearance, he observes the
storm that threatens to tear apart the two families.
In the course of his conversations with his hosts and their guests, through
his unassuming presence, he unearths the secret fears and desires they guard
fiercely in their hearts and offers them steadying counsel even as he reveals
his own journey through life’s vicissitudes.
You Can Have It All is Gaur Gopal Das’s most personal and profound
narrative yet, a captivating book that presents a transformative and radical
path for those of us caught between ambition and fulfilment, between striving
and being. Marked by his iconic humour, deep empathy and gentle wisdom, it
urges us to understand how perspective shapes our reality, learn to recognize
and overcome our blind spots, and develop the self-compassion we need to
better navigate this beautiful, complicated thing we call life.
Aravind N –
In You Can Have it All, Gaur Gopal Das has categorically put forth the fact that we can definitely ‘have it all’. Our life is not a straight road, bereft of any problems and challenges enroute. Such a life can only be a utopian one, for if everything were perfect, we wouldn’t have appreciated the inherent beauty of life, its ever-changing phenomena.
While pain is inevitable, suffering is a choice, and that’s what GGD has beautifully articulated in his short, yet meticulously authored book. By capturing real-life incidents into 10 chapters with fistful of wisdom, the author has once again proved what he is capable of, ‘the ability to convey life’s amazing lessons’ with absolute ease. Whether we are battling emotional turmoil or dabbling between work and life, this book serves as a personal guide, reminding us that challenges are inherent part of our lives and it is how we channelize our energies and rise above them that determines whether we make or break a life out of it. Instead of grumbling and letting them crush us, if we could take charge and act wise with the lessons enunciated therein, we could create a beautiful garden within the contours of our mind, a garden that is endowed with a profusion of right values and steady intellect.