From: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you, but they also have much less power to control you or hurt you. It is the freedom of the second half not to need. Both the ecstatic mirroring of my youth and the mature and honest mirroring of my adulthood have held up what I needed to see and could see at the time; they have prepared me for the fully compassionate and Divine Mirror, who has always shown me to myself in times and ways that I could handle and enjoy.
I fell many times relationally, professionally, emotionally, and physically in my life, but there was always a trampoline..."
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