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1. Magical Thinking 2. The Roar of Freedom 3. The Day of Laughter 4. Om Mani Padme Hum 5. Dragons at the Gate 6. Superman's Ghost 7. Home in the World 8. The Art of Losing 9. A Quarter Inch From Heaven 10. The Girl on the Rock 11. Going to Tahiti (or Raising Heaven) 12. The Net of Indra 13. Reinventing Your Wife 14. Man Thinks, God Laughs 15. Praying 16. Demon Lovers 17. Questioning (or The Sphinx) 18. Je M'en Foutisme 19. The Terrorists Within 20. Earth Angel 21. The End of Seeking (or Dig in One Place) 22. Something Else is Also True 23. Pain Passes But Beauty Remains 24. Hedonics 25. Invisible Feast 26. Original Blessing 27. Enough 28. Stress Matters 29. The Wounded Healer 30. True Confessions 31. Prometheus 32. Found Art 33. Through Wilderness 34. A Splinter of Love 35. Nakedness 36. Killing Peter Pan 37. The Water or the Wave? 38. What Time is Good For 39. At Sea 40. The Mother (or Aloha Oy) 41. Rope Burn 42. What Makes the Engine Go?

How people who have suffered trauma find an upside when they’ve gone to the brink—and back again. Do survivors of life’s greatest trials possess a secret knowledge? Is there an art to survival—a map for crossing the wilderness—or daily life? Why do some people blossom through adversity while others stop growing? Drawing on twenty years’ experience in this field, using stories, parable, and scientific data, acclaimed memoirist Mark Matousek gives the first-ever comprehensive look at this mysterious phenomenon of viriditas, the power of drawing passion, beauty, and wisdom from the unlikeliest places. Matousek interviews hundreds of well-known survivors—including Joan Didion, Elie Wiesel, and Isabel Allende—and experts such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jonathan Kozol, and Sogyal Rimpoche. He includes extraordinary testimonials, from a Tibetan nun imprisoned by the Chinese at age eleven and the women of Calama, Chile, digging for their “disappeared,” among countless others. Drawing insight and advice from these many heroic individuals, Matousek presents a chorus of wisdom for how to survive our own lives—the vicissitudes of being human—and prevail