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Introduction

LOVE
Loving Obnoxious People
Love versus Infatuation

THE VALUE OF LIFE
Whose Life

FRIENDS
Friends with a Murderer
Choosing Friends

THINK TWICE
Member of Hitler Youth
Fanatic versus Idealist

MARRIAGE
Lifelong Commitment
Essential Traits

FREE WILL
Animals Don't Have Free Will
Equal Measures of Free Will

HAPPINESS
Induced Pleasure
The Pursuit of Happiness

SELF-RESPECT
The Honor Trap

INTERMARRIAGE
Intermarriage and Jewish Identity

INTOLERANCE
I'm Right And You're Wrong
4 Blind Men & An Elephant

FAITH & KNOWLEDGE
Faith versus Knowledge

GOSSIP
Revealing a Negative Past
Why Gossip?

WHO PAYS?
The Collapsed Couch
The Broken Bowl

GOODNESS
Rationalizations and Our Desire to be Good
Nazi Guard or Prisoner

IN SUMMARY

  • True fulfillment only comes through effort and challenge. There are no shortcuts.

  • Don't equate pleasure with comfort. Comfort is the absence of pain; pleasure requires struggle.

  • Pursuing comfort gives us a counterfeit, illusory sense of pleasure. We limit the pain, but rob ourselves of authentic gratification and fulfillment.



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