Table of Contents
Preface: What Matters Most ix
Chapter 1 Shock and Awe: That Life Not be Governed by Fear 1
Chapter 2 Saving the Appearances: That We Learn to Tolerate Ambiguity 17
Chapter 3 Starving Amid Abundance: That We Consider Feeding the Soul 25
Chapter 4 That We Respect the Power of Eros 43
Chapter 5 That We Step into Largeness 63
Chapter 6 That We Risk Growth over Security 81
Chapter 7 That We Live Verbs Not Nouns 95
Chapter 8 That We Find and Follow the Path of Creativity and Delight in Foolish Passions 113
Chapter 9 That We Engage Spiritual Crises, and Other Bad Days at the Office 143
Chapter 10 That we Write Our Story, Lest Someone Else Write it for Us 165
Chapter 11 Amor Fati: That We Fight Fate, and Love it Also 187
Chapter 12 That We Live More Fully in The Shadow of Mortality 211
Chapter 13 That We Accept at Last That Our Home is Our Journey, and Our Journey is Our Home 237
Bibliography 257
Index 261