The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

US: Hay House, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. The need for change as we get older--an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another--is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives--not fundamentally diffe rent from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood--when it's tim e for one part of ourselves to die and for something new to be born. The purpose of this book by best-selling author and lecturer Marianne Willi amson is to psychologically and spiritually reframe this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening. In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called "middle age" need not be seen as a turning point towar d death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we've n ever known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imaginatio n--thought-forms that don't flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assum ptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal imag es of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50. What we've learned by that time, from both our failures as well as our successes, tends to have humbled us into purity. When we were young, we had energy but we were clueless about what to do with it. Today, we have less energy, perhaps, but we have far more understanding of what each breath of life is for. And now at last, we have a destiny to fulfill--not a destiny of a life that's simply over, but rather a destiny of a life that is finally truly lived.