Just get the balance right - too much of anything is not good.This is the sort of book you either love because it fills a personal need or want to read for more intellectual reasons. Or because you are familiar with the author and loved his last book. I came at it with an open mind and was doing fine in the beginning until I was jarred by a gratuitous criticism of President Donald Tump that simply left me wondering what it was doing there, in an otherwise apolitical book with a message of hope, presumably. That one sentence did not advance his argument and ought to come out. Unless of course it was a sop to the myriad Trump haters among his readers.The second criticism, if you can call it that, comes at the end of the book where he talks about how we must think "rationally and clearly," and here is what I can quarrel with: "Death brings an end to everything, to our minds, our souls, and our bodies, in a final, permanent stillness." It does no such thing. I have it on good authority (personal experience) that death liberates our souls, and opens up another world far more splendid than anything we can imagine here on earth. And while cynics and agnostics and atheists can quarrel about the existence of God, let them have their fun. Our purpose, it's true, is to find "spiritual meaning and goodness" - each time around!14