This is my first time listening to an audiobook. Listening to it in the car in 30 minute segments during my commute, I've been able to listen to it twice so far, and I'm pretty sure I'll listen to it several more times, revisiting it occasionally when I need to hear the messages of how to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering.
I love this book. Though the Dalai Lama is Buddhist, his messages of suffering and happiness cross the boundaries of religion and spirituality into universal concepts that anyone can apply to their lives. I'm not sure if I'd say this book is necessarily life changing for me, but it reinforces some of the ways in which I've been trying to improve and enhance my thinking over the past year. Clarity, being centered, and freeing oneself of anger, frustration, ignorance, fear, and craving are key elements that I've tried to incorporate into my life, in order to appreciate and fully experience the present.
This is quite possibly my favorite book ever, along with Sapiens.
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