The pace of life quickens, economic pressures mount, and we feel exhausted, overwhelmed, unhappy, and afraid. Many are losing treasured possessions, while others are losing jobs, health, and vitality. Some tragically face the loss of a loved one. Wayne invites us to question the roots of a "successful" life and offers us traditional wisdom that suggests true happiness begins not with more, but from a deep satisfaction and contentment in realizing what is, for now, enough. This book is a rigorous challenge to a culture whose theology of striving and pushing--for more and to be richer--has clearly failed to fulfill its promise of happiness, ease, and delight for all. Drawing on a rich variety of spiritual teachings, Wayne Muller invites us to calm our fearful grasping for so much and find sanctuary and peace in what we already have. Filled with wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Wayne Muller teaches us how to find the spiritual grace, courage, and wisdom to overcome our fears and insecurities and reclaim a life of joy, love, and contentment. This is an important book for these rapidly changing and challenging times. From the moment we are born, we are seekers. Our culture obsessively promotes the pursuit of money, success and self-improvement. At the end of each activity-jammed day, though, we collapse into bed discouraged by everything we have not checked off on our to-do lists, in despair that whatever we have accomplished is never enough. Worse still, when our dreams become derailed by the inherent tragedies of life-job loss, financial peril, sickness, or the death of a loved one-we feel devastated by the pain and injustice of it all. Nationally renowned author, therapist, and minister Wayne Muller offers healing for the perpetually stressed in A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough. By learning compassion and mercy for ourselves and by recognizing what is most profoundly true about who we are and what we need, we can gain the self-acceptance so that whatever we choose to do, in this moment, it is wholly enough. Muller mixes the writings of great spiritual and political leaders with inspirational anecdotes from his own life, inviting us to derive more satisfaction from less and pull gratitude out of the ashes of grief. The answer to what he describes as "authentic happiness" lies not in seeing the glass as half full instead of half empty. In reality, he writes, the glass is always half full and half empty. The world is neither broken nor whole, but eternally engaged in rhythms between joy and sorrow. With Muller's guidance, we may find ourselves on the most courageous spiritual pilgrimage of our lives.