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About the Book

What is life? This simple as well as profound question is critically and creatively reflected in this book under the following sections:

Life is beautiful           : Enjoy it

Life is fragile              : Preserve it

Life is relational         : Share it

Life is paradoxical     : Encounter it

Life is unexplainable : Contemplate it

Life is                        : Be

More than fifty relevant imageries and symbols (e.g., life as voyage, promise, music, etc.), taken from daily life are contextually reflected upon. Provocative questions are raised and insightful solutions are sought. Carefully chosen quotations from renowned and respected thinkers enlighten the imageries and add to the value of the book.

The aim of these reflections is to stress the beauty and grandeur of life. Without denying the vulnerability and evil in life an attempt is made to focus on the contemplative, dialogical and beautiful dimensions of life. Finally the invitation is given to enhance life in its entirety. So the book is a small attempt to be more aware of the preciousness of our lives and an invitation to live it in its entirety and to abandon unconditionally to the flow of life.

Contents

I. Life is Beautiful Enjoy It

Life as Music

Life as a Work of Art

Life as Humour

Life as Search for Meaning

Life as Pleasure

Life as Ecstasy

Life as the Place of a Thousand Possibilities

Life as Security

Life as Sexuality.

Life as Eating

Life as Dance

Life as Play

Life as a Play of Words

Life as an Exclamation

Life as Colour

Life as Blessing

2. Life is Fragile: Preserve It

Life as a Coffee Break

Life as the Margin

Life as Boredom.

Life as a Black Hole.

Life as a Train Journey

Life as Parachute Jumping.

Life as a Lunatic Asylum

Life as Failure

Life as Rumour

Life as Loss

Life as Hunger

3. Life is Relational: Share It

Life as Search
Life.as a Search for the Grail
Life as a Voyage
Life as Discovery
Life as Relationship
Life as Will to Power
Life as a Story
Life as Thought
Life as an Encounter
Life as Dialogue
Life as Look

4. Life is Paradoxical: Encounter It

Life as Ambivalent
Life as Tight-rope Walking
Life as Finite in the Infinite
Life as Dichotomised
Life as Parabolic
Life as a Clown in the Circus
Life as Tensional
Life as a Labyrinth
Life as Light in Darkness
Life as a Lie
Life as Paradoxical
Life as Forgetfulness

5. Life is Unexplainable: Contemplate It

Life as One-Time Experiment
Life as a Seed
Life as a Question
Life as Doubt
Life as a Dream
Life as a Lottery
Life as Banality
Life as Mystery
Life as Problem
Life as After
Life as Non-life
Life as Death
Life as Beyond
Human Life as a Day

6. Life Is: Be Life as Being on the Way

Life as Longing
Life as Change
Life as Furthering Life
Life as Truth
Life as Revelation
Life as Wholeness
Life as Utopia
Life as an Open Book
Life as Irrelevant
Life as a Promise
Life as Life

Bibliography
Index of main topics