Open Your Mind, Open Your Life

Taro Gold. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $5.99 (86pp) ISBN 978-0-7407-1446-7

Brief nuggets of Eastern wisdom from 20-something model and writer Taro Gold are available in the tiny, well-designed Open Your Mind, Open Your Life: A Little Book of Eastern Wisdom. Most of the book's thoughts on happiness are Gold's own, interspersed with quotations from Nichiren, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Soka Gakkai leader Josei Toda. ( May)

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