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Tables of Contents for The Resilient Spirit
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
4
PART ONE The Gifts
5
22
My Story
15
4
Turning Lead Into Gold
19
5
Why Life Is Interesting
24
3
PART TWO Suffering and Compassion
27
34
A Parable of Suffering and Compassion
35
14
Mapping Our Personal Complexes
49
12
PART THREE Some Advantages of a Difficult Childhood
61
38
What Protects the Resilient?
67
5
Help
72
9
Hope
81
5
Meaning
86
8
Hidden Benefits
94
5
PART FOUR Letting the Self Die
99
40
No Essential Self
111
8
Letting Her Old Self Die
119
10
Whole and Dependent
129
10
PART FIVE An Ethic of Suffering
139
48
Transcendent Function
149
8
Karmic Growing Pains
157
12
Negative Emotions
169
9
Rebirth
178
9
PART SIX Lessons
187
8
Appendix
195
4
Notes
199
38
Bibliography
237
12
Index
249