The Privilege of Aging - Savoring the Fullness of Life

An inspiring guide to embracing your mortality and living a fulfilled life

• Shares the author’s inner adventure to face aging, illness, and death, along with hard-won wisdom on the art of resting, happiness, and letting go

• Draws on stories from different spiritual traditions and offers strategies, tools, and ways of thinking to navigate the challenges of aging

• Reveals how to examine your fears and regrets, declutter the mind of negative thoughts, and reframe reality with the powerful tool of unconditional self-love

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

An inspiring guide to embracing your mortality and living a fulfilled life

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kamla K. Kapur
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2024
• EAN: 9798888500521
• ISBN: 979-8-88850-052-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development