Celebrating life / Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacks, Jonathan, 1948-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness.

Contentment.

Pleasure.

Physical Description:

xiv, 192 pages ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Celebrating life : finding happiness in unexpected places.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2004.

Summary:

'I have tried to say what happiness is, how we make it, how we lose it, and how we sometimes walk past it without recognising it. Happiness isn't somewhere else, it's where we are. It isn't something we don't have, we do. It isn't fantasy, it's reality experienced in a certain way. Happiness is a close relative of faith'Following the painful loss of his father, Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way. He discovered where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and responsibilities. He also found it through a renewed relationship with God who spoke to his deepest needs.Based, in part, on his columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is for people of all faiths and none. It shows us how to be human and, in becoming so, how we can touch the divine.

Contents:

1 Staying sane in troubled times 1

Part I Making a Blessing over Life

2 Not taking life for granted 7

3 Live long, live well 10

4 Giving thanks 14

5 Saved by a grape 17

6 What makes the good news, news 20

7 Letting the blessings catch up 23

Part II Affirmations in Unexpected Places

8 The good news file 29

9 Failure 32

10 God's script 35

11 Humour and humanity 37

12 Time out 40

13 The fly and the fly-bottle 42

Part III Where Happiness Lives

14 Having it all 47

15 A lesson in happiness 50

16 The third domain 53

17 Faith lost 56

18 Faith found 59

19 The art of happiness 62

Part IV Finding God

20 The face of the personal 67

21 The mirror of God 70

22 The voice of silence 73

23 Listening 76

24 A question of faith 79

25 Where we let Him in 82

Part V Faith in the Family

26 Faith is a marriage 87

27 Love in a loveless world 90

28 Fractured families 93

29 C 96

30 Learning to love 99

31 Being a parent 102

32 What we give our children 105

Part VI The Moral Voice

33 Our creation 109

34 The moral maze 112

35 Values we share 115

36 Can we make moral judgements? 119

37 The hardest word to hear 122

38 Civility 124

39 Confidences 126

40 Rights and duties 129

Part VII Communities of Faith

41 Community 135

42 Trust and the Prisoner's Dilemma 138

43 Bowling alone 141

44 Turning strangers into friends 144

45 Where they know my name 147

Part VIII Faith and Friendship

46 The dignity of difference 153

47 A new way 156

48 Who best values others? 159

49 When we cannot worship together 161

50 Remembering Sir Isaiah 163

51 Cardinal Hume 165

Part IX From Optimism to Hope

52 Losing our way 171

53 Sifting hope from ashes 174

54 Telling the time 177

55 When civilizations grow old 181

56 Surviving change 184

57 The Tabernacle 187

58 Faith: the undiscovered country 190.

Notes:

Originally published: London: Continuum, 2000.

ISBN:

0826473377

OCLC:

56102589