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Love Received, Love Given: A Christian Vision of a Life Worth Living

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Attachment, Success, and Living Ethically: A Buddhist Vision of a Life Worth Living

By Thubten Chodron

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Covenant, Community, and Responsibility: A Jewish Vision of a Life Worth Living

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Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series, watercolor and ink on paper, Nepal, ca. 1775–1800

The Bhagavad Gita on Performing Thy Task in Life

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Being Gentle with Oneself: A Hindu Perspective on Failure with Anantanand Rambachan

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Claude Monet, “Sandvika, Norway”, oil on canvas, 1895

Nietzsche on the Religion of Coziness

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Tibetan Buddhist monastery

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Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series, watercolor and ink on paper, Nepal, ca. 1775–1800

Claude Monet, “Sandvika, Norway”, oil on canvas, 1895

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The Recipe Test / 3 Dimensions of a Life Worth Living

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To Live Indebted: Hindu Wisdom on Responsbility / Anantanand Rambachan

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Making It Stick / Lasting Change in a Life Worth Living

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Change Is Hard / Transformation and a Life Worth Living

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We Have Some Work to Do / The Practice of a Life Worth Living

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When It Ends / Death and a Life Worth Living

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When Life Hurts... / Responding Well to Suffering in a Life Worth Living

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When We (Inevitably) Botch It / Failure and a Life Worth Living

By Miroslav Volf

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What's the Really Big Picture? / Perspective in a Life Worth Living

By Ryan McAnnally-Linz

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How Should We Live? / Moral Character and a Life Worth Living

By Matthew Croasmun

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What Should We Hope For? / Circumstances and a Life Worth Living

By Ryan McAnnally-Linz

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Who Do We Answer To? / Responsibility and a Life Worth Living

By Matthew Croasmun

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Love Received, Love Given: A Christian Vision of a Life Worth Living

By Miroslav Volf

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Tibetan Buddhist monastery

Attachment, Success, and Living Ethically: A Buddhist Vision of a Life Worth Living

By Thubten Chodron

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Writing in Hebrew

Covenant, Community, and Responsibility: A Jewish Vision of a Life Worth Living

By Leah Sarna

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A Guide to What Matters Most

By Miroslav Volf

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Envisioning a world where deep reflection on the good life is central to education and public discourse.

The Life Worth Living program of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School equips students, educators, and the public for the lifelong pursuit of the good life by engaging the world’s philosophical, cultural, and religious traditions.

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Thomas Anshutz, "The Way They Live", 1879

Delores Williams on the Danger of Glorified Suffering

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James Baldwin on Embracing Suffering & Each Other

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Ivan Aivazovsky, "Gathering Storm", 1899

Nietzsche on the Discipline of Suffering

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Albert Ederfelt, Sorrow, Variation of the Illustration for the Poem At the Fair of Vernamo

Oscar Wilde on Sorrow

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Arist Unknown, "Still Life—Flowers and Fruit in White and Pink Bowl", American, 1840–60

Peter Singer on Giving

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