The Book
Now open for pre-orderIt Matters A Lot.
A book that stays with you like an old friend. Some pages will remind you of places you've already been. Some will meet you exactly where you are. And some will point toward where you're headed.
The Book
Now open for pre-orderA book that stays with you like an old friend. Some pages will remind you of places you've already been. Some will meet you exactly where you are. And some will point toward where you're headed.
What the Book Is About
Every life, at some early point, is interrupted by a single unanswerable question: why does any of this matter? Most of us set that question aside and spend the following decades in motion, building careers, families, and identities, without ever quite returning to it.
It Matters A Lot is a work of literary nonfiction written in that return. It follows a complete human life, from childhood to old age, in search of what actually forms a person: not the milestones that mark a life from the outside, but the unexamined forces that shape it from within.
A single conviction runs beneath the entire book: that character is formed less by what a person accumulates than by what they notice, and by whether they remain capable of kindness along the way.
It Matters A Lot will find its natural audience among readers of serious, spiritually engaged nonfiction. It does not aim to console. It aims to clarify, and its ultimate purpose is unadorned: to help readers see the life already in progress, recognise what matters, and respond to it while there is still time to do so.
Four Stages, Four Questions
It Matters A Lot is not a book of answers. It is an invitation back to the question, the one you probably asked once too, before someone told you it was better to keep it quiet. Each chapter in this book sits with a different stage of life, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, not to tell you how to live it, but to slow you down inside it.
The questions, as they appear in the book
Childhood (Ch.1)
When and around whom did you learn to make yourself quieter?
Adolescence (Ch.4)
When a teenager close to you starts pulling away, is your first instinct to control them or to understand them?
Adulthood (Ch.13)
In which aspect of your life are you stretching yourself so thin that you no longer feel your own presence?
Old Age (Ch.19)
You know that your time is limited. Can you change the way you are living today?
From the Introduction
“There is a difference between existing and truly living.”
It Matters A Lot, Shubhra Saxena
FAQ
It Matters A Lot is a work of literary nonfiction that follows a complete human life, from childhood to old age, in search of what actually forms a person. It is not a book of answers. It is an invitation back to the question: why does any of this matter?
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written the foreword to It Matters A Lot. It opens the book before the first chapter begins.
It Matters A Lot is for everyone. The book follows a whole life, from childhood to old age, so every reader will find pages that meet them where they are. You do not need to be at any particular stage of life. You only need to have asked, at some point, why any of this matters.
No. It offers no method, steps or checklist. Each chapter sits with a stage of life and leaves you with a question to carry, not an instruction to follow.
Use the Pre-Order Now button on this page. It takes you to the book's listing on Amazon India.
Yes. The pre-order price on Amazon is discounted. The current price is shown on the listing.
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