The Privilege of Aging: Savoring the Fullness of Life
Autor Kamla K. Kapuren Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2024
Presenting a clarion call to the aging to awaken before they die, Kamla K. Kapur explores how we can become warriors on the spiritual path in order to embrace and prepare for the truth of our mortality and the ultimate triumph of conscious living and dying.
Set in both California and India, Kapur shares her inner adventure to navigate the hazardous battlefield of aging with the aid of spiritual guides that pilot her to safety and offer hard-won wisdom on the art of resting, happiness, and letting go. Revealing the arc of her own self-discovery, she examines her own shadows, fears, anxieties, and regrets, decluttering her mind of disempowering thoughts and reframing and co-creating her reality with the powerful tool of unconditional self-love. Drawing on stories from all traditions, Kapur demonstrates the power of self-examination, vigilance, and intentionality to have a successful old age and offers strategies, tools, and ways of thinking to ensure mental, physical, and spiritual strength to meet aging’s challenges and transform from the people we once were to the ones we are becoming on the penultimate stage of earthly life.
Encouraging readers to proceed on their own journeys of awakening, Kapur describes how to confront, express, and embrace your darkness, consciously and honestly, to move forward into the ever greater wholeness of being that incorporates our animal, human, and divine nature. She shows how to make the final course of an ardent, empowered, and courageous journey into God’s heart, revealing how the privilege of aging is to fully experience this precious, painful life and to achieve vitality, satisfaction, and joy in the life we are fortunate to still have.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798888500521
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Park Street Press
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Park Street Press
Notă biografică
Kamla K. Kapur was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. An award-winning playwright, poet, and author, her writing has been featured in anthologies and journals such as Parabola and The Sun. A former literature professor at Grossmont College, she and her husband divide their time between the remote Indian Himalayas and San Diego, California.
Cuprins
PREFACE The Many Privileges of Aging
1 The Adventure That I Am
2 My Old Age Project
3 What Does It Mean to Be Present?
4 Small Cosmic Dramas
5 The Great Remembering
6 God’s House
7 Allies in the Adventure
8 Ariel
9 Death and Music
10 My Friend Cookie, the Healer
11 The Benefits of Denial
12 Night Sea Journey
13 Stupidity Has a Purpose
14 Memory Is the Root of Wisdom
15 Letting Go
16 Preparing for Death
17 Dance of Kali
18 Mummy, My Mummy
19 Loving Myself
20 Sending Daddy to the Milky Way
21 I Am a Many-Patterned Kaleidoscope
22 Shadows
23 Hanging Out with Kamla
24 Reading, Solitude, Love
25 Entropic Imperative
26 Home
27 What Endearing Fools We Are
28 Living Like a River
29 Learning Love and Softness
30 Leave the Crusty Chrysalis Behind
31 Promises to Myself
32 How We Stay Together
33 Grass Growing Mood
34 Corona Cocoon
Acknowledgments
1 The Adventure That I Am
2 My Old Age Project
3 What Does It Mean to Be Present?
4 Small Cosmic Dramas
5 The Great Remembering
6 God’s House
7 Allies in the Adventure
8 Ariel
9 Death and Music
10 My Friend Cookie, the Healer
11 The Benefits of Denial
12 Night Sea Journey
13 Stupidity Has a Purpose
14 Memory Is the Root of Wisdom
15 Letting Go
16 Preparing for Death
17 Dance of Kali
18 Mummy, My Mummy
19 Loving Myself
20 Sending Daddy to the Milky Way
21 I Am a Many-Patterned Kaleidoscope
22 Shadows
23 Hanging Out with Kamla
24 Reading, Solitude, Love
25 Entropic Imperative
26 Home
27 What Endearing Fools We Are
28 Living Like a River
29 Learning Love and Softness
30 Leave the Crusty Chrysalis Behind
31 Promises to Myself
32 How We Stay Together
33 Grass Growing Mood
34 Corona Cocoon
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“Kamla Kapur reaches out to us as an elder and shares her wisdom on how to deal with the effects of aging on minds, bodies, and souls—and how to turn the tribulations of aging into triumphs. Her memoir is transparent, honest, vulnerable, and filled with gratitude and acceptance for life’s journey.”
“The aging of Baby Boomers worldwide is a hard trend. Fun fact: we will not get chronologically younger! The Privilege of Aging provides a powerful guide for embracing our mortality and living a happier and fulfilling life as we age.”
“What do you get when you cross an old soul with a life review? Pure alchemy. Kamla Kapur’s brave memoir about aging immerses us in the land of old souls—a generation of seekers living beyond aging as denigration, denial, or romance but rather as a privilege to be embraced. A great addition to the growing conscious aging library.”
“A wise and wonderful roadmap for awakening to and harvesting the divine gifts of this life as we ripen.”
“The aging of Baby Boomers worldwide is a hard trend. Fun fact: we will not get chronologically younger! The Privilege of Aging provides a powerful guide for embracing our mortality and living a happier and fulfilling life as we age.”
“What do you get when you cross an old soul with a life review? Pure alchemy. Kamla Kapur’s brave memoir about aging immerses us in the land of old souls—a generation of seekers living beyond aging as denigration, denial, or romance but rather as a privilege to be embraced. A great addition to the growing conscious aging library.”
“A wise and wonderful roadmap for awakening to and harvesting the divine gifts of this life as we ripen.”
Descriere
An inspiring guide to embracing your mortality and living a fulfilled life