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Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success


 
Written By: Harold S. Kushner
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From the celebrated author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a profound and practical book about doing well by doing good.

For decades now, from the pulpit and through his writing, Harold Kushner has been helping people navigate the rough patches of life: loss, guilt, crises of faith. Now, in this compelling new work, he ad-dresses an equally important issue: our craving for significance, the need to know that our lives and our choices mean something.
We sometimes do great things, and sometimes terrible things, to reassure ourselves that we matter to the world. We sometimes confuse fame, power, and wealth with true achievement. But finally we need to think of ourselves as good people, and we are troubled when we compromise our integrity in the pursuit of what we think of as success.

Harold Kushner tells us that the path to a truly successful and significant life is through friendship, through family, and through acts of generosity and self-sacrifice. He describes how, in affecting the life
of even one person in a positive way, we make a difference in the world, and prove that we do in fact matter.
Persuasive and sympathetic, anecdotal and commonsensical, Living a Life That Matters inspires and uplifts.
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Deep But Not Depressing

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Subtly is the thread that weaves through every chapter of this warm and slightly fuzzy book. Reading Kushner is like wrapping yourself in a thick flannel blanket on a snowny night. This is wonderful to keep on hand for those days when you're a little stressed out or down. Covering a variety of topics, this book will have you re-evaluting everything from how you spend your time to the death penalty. Interesting chapter on revenge and the often misquoted statement by Milton in "Paradise Lost."

Good Book

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I picked this up at the Sheboygan Public Library a few months ago and I couldn't put it down. It has many excellent messages about life and living. One can see positive experiences in almost any life venture, even the scary life ventures. In his own special way, Kushner helps your life be more special when you read this book.

Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"

A book that truly matters

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In my years of ministry, I have held the hand of many dying persons. And you know what? Never has one said "I wish I had spent more time at work", or "My life would have been complete if I had got that promotion." Nope. They talk about words of love unsaid, words of anger they wish they could unsay, time that should have been spent with their kids and family that they wasted on chasing an ephemeral ideal of 'success'.

In Living a Life that Matters, Kushner has given us a timely examination of why it is that so many in our culture spend their valuable time striving for a culturally defined success that doesn't really matter, and how to reevaluate and reorient for a meaningful life. Kushner's wonderful stories and examples, as well as clear entertaining writing make this a gem. It's easy to read, and as deep as the night sky.

If you are a person with an unsettled feeling in your soul, wondering what your life really means after all, Kushner's book is a great place to start looking for answers.

Please read it

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Other reviewers have already given good to great summaries of this book. I just wanted to add my vote. Great book!

fairly interesting

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a variety of essays of varying degrees of wisdom, all more or less related to people's desire to be important, to matter to someone. One phrase I liked: "a church or synagogue that only admitted saints would be like a hospital that only admitted healthy people. It would be a more pleasant place and easier to run, but that's not what we're in business for." Another example: I liked his explanation of the destructive impact of crime (i.e. that it robs victims of their feeling of power and significance) -- but Kushner's argument against the death penalty did not persuade me. He writes: "we don't have to kill criminals to reclaim power over them" -- but the primary victim of a murder is unable to reclaim power, because he or she is dead, dead, dead.
Product Details Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 296.36
EAN: 9780375410635
ISBN: 0375410635
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2001-09-04
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 2001-09-04
Studio: Knopf

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