How does a mystic respond to the madness now roiling our country - violence, racism, climate disruption, genocidal wars, escalating terrorism, crushing poverty, economic inequality, endless disrespect, on and on and on? We are shaken by the horror of the world we are creating. But consider this: Buddha, the awakened [...]
A sense of life purpose promotes physical, mental, and spiritual health. People who seek meaning beyond themselves are healthier, happier, and live longer. It’s vital to our well-being that we maintain strong feelings of purpose and community. For some people, life purpose is a spiritual concept, or has a religious [...]
The second People’s Climate March was on Saturday, April 29, 2017. I wanted to be in Washington D.C. to join with fellow elders on behalf of the planet, but I was unable to walk in solidarity with 200,000 in our nation’s capitol. Having missed participating in the incomparable energy and [...]
New Yorker Magazine published a cartoon in a March, 2017 issue that revealed the underside of our attitude toward aging. A husband and wife are standing in line to buy movie tickets. The woman says to the cashier, “One senior ticket and one refuses to accept he’s a senior.” [...]
I began to study how people adapt to retirement in 1965. By the time I retired from directing the Scripps Gerontology Center in 1998, I had surveyed and interviewed about five thousand people concerning their experiences of retirement. I had written two books and more than forty journal articles on [...]
While every one of us will experience the mystery we call death, until recently I could empty rooms simply by mentioning the subject of aging. Fortunately, this is beginning to change as more of us can no longer can ignore the signs. The first time a younger person offers you [...]
For us ‘60 Something’ blokes we can spend a lot of time being preoccupied and drawn into how to live out the remainder of our life without stress, illness, or the concerns and interests that held and captured us in the earlier part of our life. Sometimes we now want [...]
“Harvesting” is one of the key components of developing a spiritual practice for aging consciously. It is about reviewing our unique life experiences (Life Review) and garnering lessons learned from the examination and contemplation of them. Rabbi Zalman Schacter Shalomi in From Age-ing to Sage-ing challenges us to bring calm and curiosity [...]
What a curious title: What Aging Men Want. Don't they just want to retire, play golf, fish, travel, volunteer, watch sports and see the grandkids? What more could they want? And anyway, don't most retired guys say they're busier and happier than ever? After carefully interviewing forty men I knew [...]
“On the day after I retire from an active career, who am I?” That’s what many of us catch ourselves asking as we cross the threshold into elderhood, challenged with one of life’s basic identity issues. As a career counselor and interfaith spiritual director, I’ve often been drawn into this [...]
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