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“Aging is a Triumph, Not a Tragedy”
So spake the great geriatrician, psychiatrist and elder advocate, Robert N. Butler, who died in December 2010. According to his biographer, W. Andrew Achenbaum, he helped
“…to transform the study of aging from a marginal specialty into an intellectually vibrant field of inquiry.”… Read the rest
Warren Buffet
The connection between money and happiness comes up often in the media. If you had $100,000, what would you do with it? Invest it? Buy a fancy sports car? Take a trip around the world? Or would you buy a share in Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company that has averaged high and consistent returns over the years?… Read the rest
From [Exploring Life] by Brian Alger
The Spirituality of Aging
A spirituality of aging is a way of being that reflects a deep, authentic, and compelling engagement in understanding and merging with the essence of life. A spiritual response to life is simultaneously intellectual, emotional, and biological: spirituality seeks to evoke positive states of being in which we embraced by an urgency of wonder that shelters us with deep feelings of significance, unity, awe, contentment, acceptance, and awareness.… Read the rest
