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| Staying sane in a crazy world | 
 enlarge | Author: Sherwin T Wine
Publisher: Center for New Thinking
Category: Book
Buy Used: $8.55
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 915243
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 276
ISBN: 0964801604
EAN: 9780964801608
ASIN: 0964801604
Publication Date: 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: No notes, marks, or dog-eared pages; moderate/heavy cover and edge wear
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One of the most important self-help books of the 90s. April 11, 1999
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Sherwin Wine's Staying Sane in a Crazy World may well be the best self-help and personal development book published in a generation. Reader-friendly and clear, it is a practical guide for living in our increasingly complex, confusing, dehumanizing times. Like Kahlil Gibran, Wine urges, "Let passion fill your sails but let reason be your rudder." Reason, Wine insists, is the best tool we have for successfully meeting life's challenges. He critically examines the shortcomings of traditional religions, such as the notion that the universe gives meaning to human existence; on the contrary, he writes, "it is human desire that gives meaning to the universe."Wine counsels realism and the discarding of illusions as necessary for staying sane, dignity and courage as essential to human happiness, and the importance of ethics derived from human experience in a universe indifferent to human values and concerns. Realistic living, Wine concludes, is the courage to acknowledge truth even when painful, the courage to strive for happiness even when it is unlikely, the courage to face uncertainty, the courage to improve the world even in the face of failure, the courage to stay sane in a crazy world.
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