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As we grow older, we are more keenly aware that life is unfair and that many injustices will not be remedied in our time. We see people at home and abroad suffering hunger, discrimination and oppression while others hoard their ever-increasing wealth for private pleasure. We view fraud in corporations and dishonesty in [...]
Elderhood calls for developing an inner, contemplative life to counterbalance many external pressures. From childhood we have been told what to do by others who echo the rules and outlooks of the past. To some extent we needed to learn from external authority. This training from the outside had its role to [...]