The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older

Learn to use your later years for awakening and spiritual growth.

Encouraging, inspiring, and practical, The Grace in Aging invites all those who have ever experienced spiritual longing to awaken in their twilight years. Since aging, in and of itself, does not lead to spiritual maturity, The Grace in Aging suggests and explores causes and conditions that we can create in our lives, just as we are living them, to allow awakening to unfold—transforming the predictable sufferings of aging into profound opportunities for growth in clarity, love, compassion, and peace.

Kathleen Dowling Singh streamlines vast and complex teachings into skillful means and wise views. Straightforward language and piercing questions bring Singh’s teachings into the sharp focus of our own lives; the contemplative nature of each chapter allows for an uncommon depth of inquiry. Examples from our lives and from the chatter in our own minds touch the reader personally, offering the chance to absorb the implications deeply and do the work of freeing his or her own mind. Ecumenical in spirit, tone, and language, Singh offers wisdom from teachers from a variety of spiritual backgrounds: Chogyam Trungpa, the Apostles, Annie Dillard, and more. Lessening our attachments, decreasing our aversions, unbinding what binds us, we bear witness to the possibility of awakening for all beings.

The Grace in Aging offers guidelines for older individuals of any wisdom tradition who wish to awaken before they die; no need for caves or seven-year retreats. This is spiritual practice for the lives we live.

• The Grace in Dying : How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die
• The Grace in Living: Recognize It, Trust It, Abide in It
• Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-five Paintings to Change the Way You Live
• Spirituality: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• Spirituality: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
• Befriending Our Desires
• On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
• The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
• Unbinding: The Grace Beyond Self
• Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser