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Tables of Contents for Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
Robert Coles
xiii
Preface--And an Invitation
xvii
What This Book is About
xvii
What This Book Does
xxi
How to Read This Book
xxiii
Acknowledgments
xxv
Ask Me What I'm Living For
1
37
Doubting Pam
1
8
Vocation and Ambition
9
5
Compassion in Exile: Dickey's Story
14
7
Wanna-Be Saint
21
6
Reawakening Our Epiphanies of Recruitment
27
5
Practice: Ask Me What I'm Living For
32
2
Practice: Ask me What I Think is Keeping Me from Living Fully for the Thing I Want to Live For
34
4
Failing at Success
38
28
My Dinner with Valentino
38
7
William James and the Desire for Something More
45
6
The Sisters of the Cenacle and How to Sneak into Heaven
51
4
Practice: Remembering to Forget Ourselves
55
7
Two Practices: Finding Yourself by Losing Yourself
62
3
Practice: Why do we do That?
65
1
Ivan Ilyich, John Dean, and I: How We Deceive Ourselves
66
23
Dean and Ilyich
66
11
The Eraser and the Mendacious Mantra
77
5
Practice: Rationalization: A User's Guide
82
7
If I'm Really Something, You Must be Nothing Much
89
37
A Short Tirade
89
8
The Hidden Fountains and Gardens of the Heart
97
10
Practice: Walker Percy and Spiritual Indirection
107
7
Three Lies: A Study in Spiritual Indirection
114
5
Practices: Mirroring Ambition
119
7
Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose
126
30
Insight from Sri Lanka
126
11
They're Not Hypocrites; They Just Forgot
137
8
Wounded Audacity
145
3
Beatitude: Feeling the Pleasure of God
148
4
Practice: Days of Remembrance
152
2
Remedial Practice
154
2
The Meritocracy Machine
156
27
Harvard and Other Problems with Admissions
156
9
Practice: Reasons and Rationalizations for the Admissions Committee
165
1
Harvard Divinity School and Other Problems with Acceptance
166
10
Practice: Alternative Reading Skills
176
4
Practice: Planning an Alternative New Year's Celebration
180
3
Afterword: Occupations and Preoccupations
183
6
Practice: Captain Midnight and Other Failed Projection Devices
187
2
Notes
189
8
The Author
197
2
Index
199
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