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

A person's longing for significance--which can lead to excessive ambition, moral compromise, and preoccupation with status--often stands in conflict with a longing to be good. In Living a Life That Matters, Harold S. Kushner (the Massachusetts rabbi whose bestselling books include When Bad Things Happen to Good People) suggests that the most successful lives are the ones that most effectively manage and resolve that conflict. For example, Kushner retells the biblical story of Jacob, in a chapter whose lesson is named by its title, "How to Win By Losing." Hamlet, Dirty Harry, and Exodus are a few of the dozens of examples he cites while elaborating on the essential lesson of this book: that success and significance converge in every act of love, generosity, and self-sacrifice that we make for our families, friends, and communities. --Michael Joseph GrossRead More

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  • Product Description

    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.

  • 0375410635
  • 9780375410635
  • Harold S. Kushner
  • 1 September 2001
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 176
  • 1
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