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Show the World You’re Here
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Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You have to leave some trace or other in this world, show the world you were here, otherwise you have not realized yourself.
~ Carl Jung,
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Bestselling author Jim Hollis, in his mid-80s, helped us to see the value of Carl Jung’s work in embracing the Middle Passage to Elderhood. He said it represents a summons from within to move from the provisional life to true adulthood, from the false self to authenticity.
Ken and Maddy Dychtwald helped us to see how mature couplehood could be the most fulfilling time of our lives. Then, the modern day Joseph Campbell, mythologist Michael Meade, inspired us with the value of personal mythology based upon metabolizing our life experience.
Dr. Bill Thomas reminded us that elders are meant to be rebels.
~ Chip Conley
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Talk to me when you’re older. Talk to me when you’re forty, and I assure you that what will most disturb you, most occupy your mind and your writing, many of your waking hours, will be the willful and consistent cruelty of people against those whom they cannot understand or control…
