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Prime Time (with Bonus Content): Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit; Making the most of all of your life
Jane Fonda
Last accessed on Friday November 18, 2016
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feeling some responsibility for the big picture beyond ourselves.
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“Generativity,”
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learning to go inward—spiritually and metaphysically—allows us to look outward with new eyes.
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“products of detached contemplation” that age can bring.
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world view that transcends outer appearance to search out the underlying essentials.”2
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learn to sort out what’s fundamentally important to you from what’s irrelevant.
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It takes flexibility and a dose of courage to slough off the clutter, the gadgets, the obsessions, the pursuits, the whatever or whoever doesn’t resonate with who we are now or want to become.
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entropy; in fact, the second law of thermodynamics says that everything is in a continual state of decline and decay (think of Arnheim’s arch).
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The one thing that defies this universal law is the human spirit (Arnheim’s stairway).
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like energy—which it is—spirit can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed (the first law of thermodynamics!).
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detritus of life—violence, abuse, neglect, disease, chronic depression. That’s when addictions can happen. We become “empty chalices,” in the words of the psychologist Marion Woodman, and so we try to fill ourselves with clutter, including addictions. Psychiatrists call this “self-medicating.”
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God as Love
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The humility needed to take the step of acceptance and love softens the hard, empty place at our center, permitting spirit to flood in and fill the emptiness.
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“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
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“wintered into wisdom.”
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the old rituals become empty.
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If, however, our goal is to awaken to a new stage, to awaken our consciousness, harvest our wisdom, burnish our perhaps languishing soul so as to go deeper into life’s meaning and manifest it with compassion, then age can be a positive process of continued development and growth, moving us toward our goals instead of causing us to leave our goals behind.
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life review.
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It wasn’t the facts of them that changed; it was the meaning they held for me.
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your freedom to choose how you will respond to a situation.
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What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities: what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind they trigger.
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memories reside not only in our linear minds but also in our bodies, our cells, our tissues, and our senses.
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replaced stress with detachment.
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observe events with greater objectivity, fairness, and perception instead of so much subjectivity.
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it’s not just about you!
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while we cannot undo what has been, we can change the way we understand and feel about it, and this changes everything.
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self-confrontation and transformation.
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“we determine reality by the manner in which we approach it.
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freedom to choose the meaning of our
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experiences.
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our ability to change our attitudes
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and behaviors manifests neurologically,
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Riane Eisler’s transformational The Chalice and the Blade, about Neolithic societies that practiced goddess worship and the rise of patriarchy that crushed it, and psychiatrist M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled, about what makes for a fulfilled human being.
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