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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 | |