Learn to Grow OldPaul Tournier offers a variety of suggestions to help make growing old not an end but a new beginning, filled with purpose and hope. He suggests ways to remain active, using leisure to our best advantage and not letting it become a tyrant. He also provides insights on taking up new interests; becoming involved with young people and new ideas; and learning to pray, to meditate, to acquire wisdom, and to increasingly draw strength and inspiration from the reality of divine presence and power. |
Contents
Work and Leisure | 1 |
A difficult reconversion | 7 |
Surprises | 15 |
Personal development and spontaneity | 21 |
Idleness is the mother of all the vices | 29 |
Towards a More Humane Society | 36 |
The mission of the | 42 |
The irrational dimension | 50 |
An interesting and useful career | 128 |
A more personal career | 134 |
More imagination | 142 |
More initiative | 146 |
Further examples | 153 |
The work of Professor Jores | 160 |
Acceptance | 169 |
Must we accept everything? | 175 |
The development of the child | 58 |
Personal contact | 62 |
Make contact with the old | 70 |
The Condition of the | 78 |
The resources of the retired | 86 |
Growing old together | 93 |
Social integration | 99 |
Living quarters | 107 |
Boredom | 115 |
A Second Career | 122 |
Positive acceptance | 183 |
Detachment from the world | 190 |
A less possessive love | 197 |
Outside the hierarchy and money | 203 |
Towards a more universal meaning | 209 |
Faith | 215 |
Faith does not exclude anxiety | 221 |
The Christian position | 227 |
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