Taking Our Places
Subtitle: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: May 6, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780060505516
First sentence: I THINK MOST OF US ARE TERRIFIED BY THE IDEA OF GROWING up-or would be if we ever considered the idea seriously.
Description: Draws on the author's experiences as a mentor to teenage boys to investigate cultural assumptions about adulthood, citing such qualities as awareness, responsibility, and humor as the marks of a mature person.