Aging as a Spiritual Awakening: A New Way to Experience Growing Older

Aging Is Not What You’ve Been Told

Most of us were handed a story about aging long before we ever questioned it.

It sounds like this:
Loss. Decline. Irrelevance. Something to resist, fix, or fear.

But what if that story is incomplete?

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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