Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life

265 Pages·2011·1.13 MB·English

by  Alexander Green

CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Part One : Dollars and Sense
Are the Rich Smarter Than You?
Are You Losing Your Soul?
Impatient Optimism . . . and Radical Generosity
You Can’t Google This
The Only Thing that Really Matters
The Principle Thing
The One Thing that Changes Everything
The Trouble with Happiness
The Key to Personal Freedom
Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life
How Your World Will At Last Be Built
The Most Important Job on Earth
One of Life’s Great Miracles
The Power of Negative Visualization
How to Reclaim Your Life
Why It’s One of The Seven Deadly Sins
The Ruling Passion of the Noblest Minds
Part Two : Wealth Beyond Measure
Are You Uncurious?
The Road Not Taken
They Make Us All Richer
Are You Ready for the Grand Tour?
The Quintessence of Life
What Women Really Want
An Incandescent Drop of American Fire
The Most Civilized Thing in the World
How to Eat Like a Zen Master
The Sublimest Activity of the Human Mind
Drunken Monkey Ice Cream . . . and the Wisdom of
Thornton Wilder
The Lost Art of Conversation
What Success Really Means
What Are Your Sins of Omission?
The Beauty of Slowing Down
When Entertainment Becomes Art
Do You Have a Secret?
Are You Amusing Yourself to Death?
In Praise of Idleness
The Tyranny of the New
Why You Should Know “The Indispensable Man”
A Revelation at 4,500 Feet
Part Three : Knowing and Believing
Tolstoy’s Forbidden Book
A Shameless Veneration of Heroes
A Path to Personal Freedom
Your Greatest Risk
Are You Part of “The Great Conversation”?
A 2,600-Year-Old Manual for Living
If You Knew What Jim Brown Knows
The Noblest Expression of the Human Spirit
The Art of Living Consciously
How to Let Your Life Speak
A Legacy of Inspiration
The Only Thing New in the World
The University on Your Shelf
We Are All Greeks Now
The Wisdom of Hillel
Meditations of the Philosopher-King
Part Four : Matters of Life and Death
Discovering a New Sense of the Sacred
The Highest of Arts
Emerson: The Quintessential American
The Life You Can Save
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
The Literature of Truth
Your Connection to Everything
The Difference between Knowing and Believing
The Lessons of Haiti
Your Trip to “The Undiscovered Country”
The Beginning of Wisdom
Of Lost Souls and Lucky Stiffs
How to Pull the Universe Out of a Hat
It Makes Everything Meaningful
The Truth about Myths
Your Place In “The Great Story”
Seven Principles of Spirituality
Afterword
Appendix : Recipe for Mom’s Insanely Great Vegetable
Soup
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index

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Beyond wealth : the road map to a rich life / Alexander Green.
p. cm.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-02761-5 (hardback); 978-1-118-07832-7 (ebk); 978-1-118-
07833-4 (ebk); 978-1-118-07834-1 (ebk) 1. Success in business. 2. Success. 3.
Wealth—Psychological aspects. 4. Conduct of life. 5. Self-actualization
(Psychology) I. Title.
HF5386.G73 2011
650.1—dc22
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