First Invite Love In - Tana Pesso with Penor Rinpoche

I borrowed this book because it has a foreword by the Dalai Lama.

It's an interesting book, but a little strange.  In some of the first exercises, I found myself at peace and smiling, but as I read through the remainder of the exercises, I almost laughed at some of the ideas - specifically that everyone that you visualize was your mother in a past life, including rabbits, etc.

Conceptually, I understand developing compassion and empathy through identification with sentient beings, but how this book describes the visualizations ranges from profound to kind of silly.

Still though, like any book, I like to incorporate and learn from the things I like about it.  I only got about 30% of this book, but it will help me in developing compassion.

I'd rate this book maybe a 6 out of 10.