When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search for a Life That Matters

by Harold Kushner

Overview

Harold Kushner, rabbi for more than thirty years and bestselling author, returns with advice and guidance on your search for a meaningful life.

With the same compassion and wisdom that powered his phenomenal bestseller When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner addresses a need that is universal and timeless — the wish for a meaningful life.

Why is it that, after attaining many of our goals, we are left with a sense that something vital is missing?

In his deeply inspiring bestseller, Rabbi Kushner shows us how to live as human beings are meant to. He guides us to a heightened sense of joy, purpose, and meaning, and helps us to redirect our energies toward goals that will bring us lasting happiness and true fulfillment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743234733
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	299,263
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Harold Kushner has written many bestselling books that have helped millions of people find in faith a source of help for coping with life's problems.

Table of Contents

1.	Was There Something I Was Supposed to Do with My Life?	13
2.	The Most Dangerous Book in the Bible	31
3.	The Loneliness of Looking Out for Number One	45
4.	When It Hurts Too Much to Feel	65
5.	Feeling No Pain, Feeling No Joy	85
6.	"But the Fool Walks in Darkness"	101
7.	Who's Afraid of the Fear of God?	115
8.	Go Eat Your Bread in Gladness	137
9.	Why I Am Not Afraid to Die	153
10.	One Question Left Unanswered	175

Editorial Reviews

The Washington Post Thoughtful, well reasoned...a useful spiritual survival manual.

The Baltimore Sun Rabbi Harold S. Kushner has written a...book to give disillusioned Americans something to feel good about.

Redbook Inspirational...Rabbi Kushner gives good people more good advice.

From the Publisher

Kushner's new book is likely to match his When Bad Things Happen to Good People as a bestseller. In the rabbi's sympathetic and eminently readable guide, discontented people can find reasons to banish doubts on whether living is worthwhile. The Book of Ecclesiastes is the main source of reassurance here, for the spiritually bankrupt. Citing the short entry in the Old Testament as ``the most dangerous in the Bible,'' the author argues that a fear of uselessness is humanity's ancient enemy. Ecclesiastes poured out his complaints that all his wealth and wisdom and achievements were nothing: he must die and be forgotten like an animal. Why does God withhold the power to enjoy the gifts that are the scribe's by the grace of God? Exploring the despair voiced in these pages, Kushner emphasizes the lesson that the unknown writer finally learned more than 1000 years agoevery person matters. Readers will benefit from Kushner's advice on making their lives matter to themselves and others. First serial to Redbook; Literary Guild selection. (April 14)

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