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| Foreword | |
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| Preface--And an Invitation | |
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| What This Book Is About | |
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| What This Book Does | |
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| How to Read This Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Ask Me What I'm Living For | |
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| Doubting Pam | |
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| Vocation and Ambition | |
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| Compassion in Exile: Dickey's Story | |
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| Wanna-Be Saint | |
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| Reawakening Our Epiphanies of Recruitment | |
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| Practice: Ask Me What I'm Living For | |
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| Practice: Ask Me What I Think Is Keeping Me from Living Fully for the Thing I Want to Live For | |
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| Failing at Success | |
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| My Dinner with Valentino | |
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| William James and the Desire for Something More | |
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| The Sisters of the Cenacle and How to Sneak into Heaven | |
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| Practice: Remembering to Forget Ourselves | |
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| Two Practices: Finding Yourself by Losing Yourself | |
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| Practice: Why Do We Do That? | |
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| Ivan Ilyich, John Dean, and I: How We Deceive Ourselves | |
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| Dean and Ilyich | |
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| The Eraser and the Mendacious Mantra | |
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| Practice: Rationalization: A User's Guide | |
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| If I'm Really Something, You Must Be Nothing Much | |
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| A Short Tirade | |
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| The Hidden Fountains and Gardens of the Heart | |
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| Practice: Walker Percy and Spiritual Indirection | |
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| Three Lies: A Study in Spiritual Indirection | |
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| Practices: Mirroring Ambition | |
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| Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose | |
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| Insight from Sri Lanka | |
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| They're Not Hypocrites; They Just Forgot | |
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| Wounded Audacity | |
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| Beatitude: Feeling the Pleasure of God | |
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| Practice: Days of Remembrance | |
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| Remedial Practice | |
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| The Meritocracy Machine | |
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| Harvard and Other Problems with Admissions | |
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| Practice: Reasons and Rationalizations for the Admissions Committee | |
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| Harvard Divinity School and Other Problems with Acceptance | |
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| Practice: Alternative Reading Skills | |
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| Practice: Planning an Alternative New Year's Celebration | |
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| Afterword: Occupations and Preoccupations | |
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| Practice: Captain Midnight and Other Failed Projection Devices | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Author | |
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| Index | |