Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living

Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living

â€œConventional wisdom,â€ says Roger Housden, â€œtells us that nobody goes to heaven for having a good time.â€ Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us.

With elegance, gentle humor, and remarkable openness, Housden takes us along as he recalls his personal journey toward an appreciation of what he calls the Seven Pleasures: The Pleasure of All Five Senses, The Pleasure of Being Foolish,The Pleasure of Not Knowing, The Pleasure of Not Being Perfect, The Pleasure of Doing Nothing Useful, The Pleasure of Being Ordinary, and The Pleasure of Coming Home.

Housden writes, for instance, of submitting to the ultimate folly of falling in love, of celebrating our imperfections, of coming to understand the virtues of the Slow Food movement while enjoying an all-afternoon lunch in a small French village, and of discovering in a Saharan cave that, however extraordinary our surroundings, â€œwe are human, a glorious nothing much to speak ofâ€â€”and learning to be at peace with the notion.

Such pleasures may be suspect in todayâ€™s achievement-driven, tightly scheduled, relent-lessly self-improving, conspicuously consumptive culture, but surely the greater sin lies in letting them slip away moment by precious moment. â€œThe purpose of this book,â€ says Housden, â€œis to inspire you to lighten up and fall in love with the world and all that is in it.â€ Reading it is a pleasure indeed.

â€œWhen you die,God and the angels will hold you accountablefor all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.â€

Roger Housden, author of the bestselling Ten Poems series, presents a joyously affirmative, warmly personal, and spiritually illuminating meditation on the virtues of opening ourselves up to pleasures like being foolish, not being perfect, and doing nothing useful, the pleasure of not knowing, and even (would you believe it?) the pleasure of being ordinary.

Country	USA
Author	Roger Housden
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307336712
Edition	annotated edition
ISBN	0307336719
Label	Harmony
Manufacturer	Harmony
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2005-12-06
Publisher	Harmony
ReleaseDate	2005-12-06
Studio	Harmony

Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living

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