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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : James Hollis
Genre : Inspirational
When I was in my mid-50s, I began to reflect on all I had accomplished and consider what I wanted to have happen as I moved into the second half of my life. Some individuals has figured out their 100-year plan that includes working on into their eighties. Yet when retirement from full-time family work or employment loom on the horizon, others feel lost and  have no clue what they will do in the space they’re about to step into.
In his beautifully-written book, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, James Hollis, suggests that adulthood offers varying levels of growth in ways many of us find unexpected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the middle thirties and seventy when we question the choices we’ve made. Beware: With clarifying answers comes a rather demanding invitation to live more consciously in the second half of life. Lots of thought-provoking questions are included.
Some refer to this as a midlife crisis, anticipating that outward changes will make the difference when, most likely, inward alternations are necessary and will help us thrive in our later years. It is when we question the status quo, especially in these times of upheaval and uncertainty, that we can explore the ways we will grow and evolve going forward.
“Individuation is the lifelong project of become more nearly the whole person we were meant to be. So often the idea of individuation has been confused with self-indulgence, but what it often asks of us is the surrender of the ego’s agenda of security and emotional reinforcement, in favor of humbling service to the soul’s intent. Then one experiences purpose in being, a sense of harmony with the world and one’s self—both the world and the individual journey are clothed in meaning. The summons of the soul to a larger life is to invite your consciousness to a more mindful relationship to your journey.”
“The psychology of the first half of life is driven by the fantasy of acquisition, separating from the overt domination of parents and acquiring a standing in the world. Then the second half of life asks of us, relinquishment of identification with property, roles, status, provisional identities and the embrace of other, inwardly confirmed values. Too often we remain in service to the agenda of the first half of life when the soul has already moved on to the agenda of the second”
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