from dust jacket

'The Paradoxical Comandments do not focus on popular symbols of success like wealth, powr, and fame. Instead, they focus on meaning-themeaning you can get from loving others, doing good, being honest, thinking big, fighting for underdogs, building, helping others, and giving the world the best you've got. Each action you take can be enough, in and of itself, whether anything else follows from it. When you live the Paradoxical Commandments, each action you take will be complete, because each action will bring its own meaning...When you live the paradoxical life, you will find personal meaning in a crazy world. You will make a difference. You will change lives. One of the lives you change will be your own.'-from Anyway

from cover

These ten principles were first articulated by Kent Keith as a student at Harvard in the 1960s. Since then, unbbeknownst to him, they were quoted, circulated, and appropriated by countless people-politicians and academics, civic and religious leaders, businesspeople, students, and nonprofit organizations. they were taped to computer monitors, refrigerator doors, and to the walls of Mother Teresa's children's home in calcutta.

It was upon learnng of this last appearance that Kent Keith finally began to discover that his Paradoxical Commandments had traveled around the world and back again. And he was moved to put his commandments, the philosophy behind them, and the stories that bring them to life into this modern credo for living well, being happy...and doing good anyway.

Contents

Foreword
Introduction
It's a Crazy World
The Paradoxical Commandments
Living the Paradoxical Life
Acknowledgments