The Grace in Aging by Kathleen Dowling Singh

The Grace in Aging by Kathleen Dowling Singh

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 listener 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: Thich Nhat Hanh, 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.

Kathleen Dowling Singh is a mentor for profound psychospiritual growth work and has a degree in transpersonal psychology. She gives talks on spirituality at the end of life, spiritual development in the middle of life, and meditative and contemplative practices all throughout the United States. Kathleen is the author of The Grace in Dying: How We Are Changed Spiritually As We Die, a book that was designated one of Amazon's Top 10 Spirituality Books the year it was released and is widely regarded as a landmark in the subject. The Grace in Aging: Awaken As You Get Older has struck a chord with earnest practitioners who want to use their aging years to spiritually mature and ripen. Spirituality and Practice Magazine named it one of the finest books of 2014.

The Grace in Living: Identify It, Trust It, Abide in It is her most recent book, and it includes spiritual biographical teaching as well as the awakening tales of famous instructors and longtime practitioners. Kathleen currently resides in Sarasota, Florida, where she is surrounded by many of her four children and seven grandchildren.