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English
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Learning to Like Life : A Tribute to Lowell Bennion
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Self Published
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[2017 Association for Mormon Letters Finalist for Creative Non-Fiction]
"This book is meant to honor Lowell Bennion's legacy. All of Doc's aphorisms imply a simple principle : our goodness and happiness must begin in the heart and depend on the quality of our affections, and, perhaps most importantly, we have the capacity to change those affections through a kind of cultivation. 'Learn to like,' he repeats. Don't assume that what you like is unchangeable, deeply rooted in your personality like some genetic code. Our affections stem from what we serve and devote ourselves to, and even if we don't yet love as we should, it is enough to want to love better, more deply, more generously. And loving is a way of practicing what we like." [Publisher]