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4. Each human life is a journey through a series of stages.
Each of us advances through life in a series of stages.
We can think of these stages in different ways, and they may manifest differently for different people, but there are certain predictable common elements.
For example, new research indicates that the structure of our brains change at four key ages: 9, 32, 66 and 83 years.
Words from Others on this Topic
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Marcel Proust, 1918, from the novel Within a Budding Grove
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
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