Before I Go
Letters to Our Children About What Really Matters
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2007
264 pages
978-1-58051-230-5 (ISBN)
Description
Most parents have no trouble telling their children how to dress, drive, study, or shave, but struggle to talk with them about how best to live-about real love, faith, integrity, values, true enrichment, and success. In the tradition of Tuesdays With Morrie, Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft shares with us the wisdom that he has compiled for his children as his best gift to them. Readable and browsable, these heart to heart chats present priceless truths to live by in a casual yet compelling way.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-58051-230-5 (9781580512305)
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Other editions
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Book
10/2007
Sheed & Ward,U.S.
€19.00
Article in reprint
Person
Peter Kreeft has been featured on the PBS series "The Question of God." He is professor of philosophy at Boston College and lives in West Newton, Massachusetts.
Content
- Front Cover
- Introduction
- 1. From the Dying to the Living
- 2. Who Am I To Give Advice?
- 3. The Best Thing in Life
- 4. If There Was Time to Say Just One Thing
- 5. Everything Is Love
- 6. The Most Important Person
- 7. Memento mori
- 8. A One-Minute, Life-Changing Prayer
- 9. What Is "A Good Person"?
- 10. "Do Your Best"?
- 11. What I Pray for Every Day
- 12. The Meaning of Life-In One Sentence
- 13. What Does "I Love You" Mean?
- 14. Time = Life = Family
- 15. No Way Out?
- 16. What Is Honesty?
- 17. Optimism and Pessimism
- 18. Live in the Present
- 19. A Sane Scale of Values
- 20. Self-Esteem
- 21. "Mother"
- 22. What to Do with Time: Some Practical Advice
- 23. Sacred Time
- 24. One Minute To Sanity
- 25. Where the Good Stuff Comes From
- 26. Laugh!
- 27. Grudgelessness
- 28. What's the Big Deal about Church?
- 29. Something about Sex
- 30. Modern Times
- 31. What Is a Family?
- 32. Only One Thing Necessary
- 33. How to Be a Good Person: Step One
- 34. Step Two: Ten Ways to Be a Good Person
- 35. Step Three: The Payoff
- 36. Life Is Art
- 37. The Four Most Important Choices of Your Life
- 38. Three Idols
- 39. One Gift for You
- 40. How Do You Get to Heaven from Here?
- 41. Honor
- 42. Life as Fetal Rehearsals
- 43. Mornings
- 44. Some Maxims
- 45. Divine Grace and Human Freedom
- 46. Money
- 47. Style
- 48. The Oprah Piss Test
- 49. Simplicity
- 50. Emptiness
- 51. Lesson from a Great Poet
- 52. Stop and Smell the Roses
- 53. Love's Logic
- 54. How to Make It Easy to Be Good
- 55. Temptations of Old Age
- 56. The Highest Wisdom
- 57. Forgiving
- 58. One Word
- 59. Jesus the Comedian
- 60. Lord Truth
- 61. The Four Dimensions
- 62. "Religion"
- 63. Nevers
- 64. Work and Play
- 65. Dying Is Beginning
- 66. Why You Exist
- 67. Prayers for Children
- 68. K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid!)
- 69. Therapy for Fear
- 70. Slow Down
- 71. "Be Good." "Why?"
- 72. Simple Things
- 73. Understanding
- 74. If
- 75. Life Is a Fish Fry
- 76. How to Get Peace and Social Justice
- 77. Peace
- 78. Why We Need Unhappiness
- 79. Why Honesty Is the Most Important Virtue
- 80. The Profoundest Wisdom
- 81. Last Resort
- 82. Gratitude
- 83. Three Stupid Thoughts
- 84. How to Deal with Difficult People
- 85. All Fathers Fail but One
- 86. The Best Gift to Your Kids
- 87. One-Word Advice for Marriage
- 88. Two Philosophies of Life
- 89. Holy Shit
- 90. Jacob's Ladder
- 91. Forgive
- 92. What to Do Ten Times a Day to Be Happy
- 93. What Not to Do Ten Times a Day
- 94. Ten Sentences Nobody Ever Uttered on His Deathbed
- 95. Priorities
- 96. Eat the Fruits in the Toy Box
- 97. The Burning I
- 98. Mystic to the Max: A Lesson in Comparative Religions
- 99. You Wanna be a Saint?
- 100. "Joy in Suffering"-Impossible?
- 101. Nature and Grace
- 102. Anorexia of the Soul
- 103. Bumpers and Bleeders versus Noodles and Skeletons
- 104. How to Be Wiser, Happier, and Better in Seven Minutes
- 105. God Is a Comedian
- 106. A Realistic Thought Experiment
- 107. Hokiness
- 108. Blessed Mess
- 109. A Parable about Walls
- 110. Your Life: Four Images
- 111. "I Didn't Deserve That"
- 112. "Liberal" or "Conservative"?
- 113. When You Fail
- 114. Love and Pain
- 115. Cheap Psychiatry
- 116. The Power of Confession
- 117. Minds and Mouths
- 118. Keep a Chapbook
- 119. God and Play
- 120. What It Means to Be Pro-Life
- 121. The Inner Zoo
- 122. Dying is Easy
- 123. "Blessed Are the Poor"
- 124. Surfing Wisdom
- 125. The Beauty of Sadness
- 126. Have Kids
- 127. "What Can We Do to Make You Happy?"
- 128. The Most Precious Gift
- 129. Sacrifices
- 130. Trickling to the Sea
- 131. An Unnecessary Book
- 132. Uniqueness
- 133. God Has Children But No Grandchildren
- 134. The Meaning of Sunlight
- 135. Work and Play-and Roses
- 136. Natural Time
- 137. Why the Good Suffer
- 138. What We Want Most of All
- 139. Four Things to Make You Happy
- 140. Pages Stuck Together
- 141. How Communion Works
- 142. Don't Balance
- 143. "Pay It Forward"
- 144. When Everything Seems Senseless
- 145. The Wisdom of Childhood
- 146. Better Than Right
- 147. My Obsession
- 148. Reasons
- 149. If God Became a Cat
- 150. The Big Picture
- 151. What Acts Change the World the Most?
- 152. Seven Questions, One Answer
- 153. The Practical Solution to the Problem of Evil
- 154. Handicaps
- 155. Why Bad Days Are Good
- 156. Our Dyslexia
- 157. We Are Designed to Burn
- 158. Simple-Hearted
- 159. Why So Much Religion?
- 160. Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
- 161. When I Die
- 162. The Last Word
- About the Author
