Adventures of a Happy Man by Channing Pollock

My brother got me this book for Christmas and I only read it last week. I was surprised after reading it and looking it up that Channing Pollock hasn't written much of anything, he wrote some plays that I do want to read but I haven't found a reliable source to get them but he's mostly known as a stage magician and actor but from reading this book I thought that he had written more novels but he's just a prolific reader. While reading it I was very impressed with his views on the world, he doesn't drill into your head "Just be happy!" but rather gives you the space to examine your own situation and to allow him to ask you "Why exactly do you feel the need to define yourself by the bad things and tedium's you have to deal with?" It's a book of essays rather than a novel but it doesn't repeat itself with the same idea, Pollock goes through any situation someone may feel like they have no other way to view the world or what they're going through and reminds them that all things end and you don't have to cling onto what ails you. It kind of reminded me of the way the Tibetan Book of the Dead calls for thousands of prayers every time you come up a 'sin' or the like and, in my interpretation anyways, it was never to discipline yourself until you're just a stone that nothing can penetrate, but rather when you're caught in a cycle of relentless bad thoughts or compulsions that all lead to a bad ending, adding a new phrase to your daily woes and miseries may not seem like anything at all in the beginning but when you keep up the new rhythm then it creates a new window for you to see things down the road and eventually the window will lead to a new path for you to walk down on. I don't know how widely available this book is, the copy I have was published in the 60s and has been well used since then but if you manage to get your hands on a copy I'd love to know your thoughts.