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Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

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Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship. Many, if not most, people and institutions remain in 'the first half of life' forever, preoccupied with establishing their identity, climbing, achieving, and performing. The protagonist thinks that the first task is their only task, but, in reality, it turns out the real task comes later. He explains what should, but often doesn't happen in that first half of life; the consequences of our permanent cultural adolescence, and how we might grow beyond that adolescence into full, free, grace-filled selves.

It means that with each second, the falling body travels a substantially larger distance than before. In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us. He also reminds us that the “official church” (whatever that means) doesn’t say that Hitler and Stalin are in hell (a place that is merely where we put ourselves by not growing). This is not a book for people who believe that fundamentalism (of any type) is the road to salvation.Falling Upward is one of his most well-known books, and takes a spiritual approach that can be read universally for any religion.

Or his own "I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you. Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you. Odysseus this and that, Lady Julian “fall…and…recover(y)…both are the mercy of God”, Carl Jung almost every chapter.Their shout of “sola Scriptura” (only Scripture) has left them at the mercy of their own cultures, their own limited education, their own prejudices, and their own selective reading of some texts while avoiding others. The container itself is no longer enough, and we begin to journey toward an ancient self with a new homesickness, to enter into a second simplicity, to accept, with a new inner brightness, the old inescapable sadness. Finally able to ask the right questions and free enough to risk responding openly as we see it now, knowing we are incomplete, but seeking wholeness. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.

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