The very compelling Demandez et vous recevrez ("Ask and you shall receive")
First, a little background.
I first read this book a year and a half ago on a bike trip. My friend and I paid for a hostel on the way, and that hostel had a library. The title, "Ask and You Shall Receive," hooked me. But that was nothing compared to the first sentence, then the first page, then the first chapter... I ended up reading it in one sitting. We were leaving the next morning. Then, this week, I missed this book so much that I went to a used bookstore and rummaged through the unordered shelves in the "Psychology and Wellness" section.
The premise is crazy. All we have to do is ask the universe clearly what we want, and we'll eventually get it. We can elaborate on that, but the book really comes down to that one sentence.
To convince us, the author boasts of his training as a physicist, but his arguments are a bit simplistic. This is surely his intention, by the way. He wants us to have faith, and to be curious, so that we search by ourselves if we are not sure of what he says.
But you can't help but be carried away by what he says. He says that we are lucky to be alive (which we can't deny), and that we came to Earth to have fun. We are in heaven on earth, so let's enjoy it! What's the worst that can happen? We die? It will happen, that's guaranteed. So we can already put aside this fear: the worst will happen to us. So let's dare, let's throw ourselves into the void, let's put all our eggs in the same basket, and let's have fun.
According to him, happiness is too difficult to achieve, and we won't have time in our short life to do it. So we must rather seek pleasure. And since pleasure is inevitably accompanied by small misfortunes, we must welcome them. Shout out "Yes, I'm in trouble!"
If I could recommend only one feel-good book, this is clearly it. I felt on a cloud of possibility after reading (in one sitting again) this book. I felt like I was on a playground, I felt like everything was allowed to me, that I didn't have to worry about anything, that life was well made and that it would take care of everything. And if I had one belief to adopt, it would be her.
Really, I wish you a good reading.
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