The psychology of midlife
She is living an unlived life, estranged from her own sense of authenticity, dried up and disconnected from intimacy – with herself, with others, with the world. Now she has heard the Call. She knows that she needs a new source of nourishing moisture to quench her aridity. What can she do? How can she find her lost skin? Is it even possible? What i
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When physical vigor fails with age, for example, it means that one will be ready to turn one’s energies from the mastery of the external world to a deeper exploration of inner reality.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
When you’re in middle age, which I am (mid-middle age, to be precise—I’m now 52), you start to realize how very much you need your friends. They’re the flora and fauna in a life that hasn’t had much diversity, because you’ve been so busy—so relentlessly, stupidly busy—with middle-age things: kids, house, spouse, or some modern-day version of Zorba’
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