Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.