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AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

by Richard Rohr
AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

by Richard Rohr

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118248010
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 12/12/2011
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 503,244
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1986, where he presently serves as founding director. Fr. Rohr is the author of more than twenty books, an internationally known speaker, and a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines and the CAC's quarterly journal, Radical Grace.

Table of Contents

The Invitation to a Further Journey vii

Introduction xiii

1 The Two Halves of Life 1

2 The Hero and Heroine's Journey 17

3 The First Half of Life 25

4 The Tragic Sense of Life 53

5 Stumbling over the Stumbling Stone 65

6 Necessary Suffering 73

7 Home and Homesickness 87

8 Amnesia and the Big Picture 97

9 A Second Simplicity 105

10 A Bright Sadness 117

11 The Shadowlands 127

12 New Problems and New Directions 137

13 Falling Upward 153

Coda 161

Notes 169

Bibliography 177

The Author 183

Index 185

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