Contents

       Preface

CHAPTER 1   The Choice Is Yours

CHAPTER 2   It’s Time to Grow Up

CHAPTER 3   Let Go of the Old

CHAPTER 4   Recover Personal Authority

CHAPTER 5   Seek to Make Amends

CHAPTER 6   Step Out from under the Parental Shade

CHAPTER 7   Vow to Get Unstuck

CHAPTER 8   Come Back to Your Task

CHAPTER 9   Choose the Path of Enlargement

CHAPTER 10   What Gift Have You Been Withholding from the World?

CHAPTER 11   See the Old Self-Destructive Patterns

CHAPTER 12   What Is the Bigger Picture for You?

CHAPTER 13   Choose Meaning over Happiness

CHAPTER 14   Honor, Finally, What You Left Behind, and Seize Permission to Be Who You Are

CHAPTER 15   Exorcise the Ghosts of the Past That Bind You

CHAPTER 16   Free Your Children from You

CHAPTER 17   Bestow Love on the Unlovable Parts of You

CHAPTER 18   Honor the Difference between Job, Duty, and Calling

CHAPTER 19   Construct a Mature Spirituality

CHAPTER 20   Seize Permission to Be Who You Really Are

CHAPTER 21   Live the Examined Life: Live the Questions, Not the Answers

       Afterword

       Notes

       Bibliography

       About the Author

       Also by James Hollis

       About Sounds True

       Copyright

       Praise for Living an Examined Life