Old Age: Journey into Simplicity by Helen Luke

Old Age: Journey into Simplicity Reviews

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  NRHB

  As someone in my mid sixties, I really appreciate the insights in this book. There are many books that deny the reality of old age or make jokes about it or describe ways to manage it, but this is the only book I've come across that really talks about what the transition
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  Eugenia Anne Gamble

  This magnificent little book is one of the simplest and most profound that I have ever read. In fact, it is so soul moving that I cannot find words to describe it. If you are a person who finds meaning in the inner workings of the soul and true joy in symbol’s capacity to
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  Massachusetts

  This book is an extraordinary and compelling reflection on the possibility of spiritual growth and maturity, especially in old age. Taken as a whole, the book provides a guide for understanding one’s later years as a unique opportunity for reaching spiritual maturity, not
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  Joyce

  Naturally this book would appeal to me since I am old, but I encourage you to note that we all are aging and this fantastic book offers an artful approach to the process. Luke, a renowned Jungian analyst, uses works of Homer, Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot to deepen our
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  napewastewin

  Very Jungian, but so am I. Very esoteric, as am I, and written for very intelligent women, as I am. But I wouldn't buy it again nor recommend it to my friends. Luke is good, but just a bit too much for me now that I am old and have learned that life is really so much
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  Lynn McMillan

  The author uses themes and passages from classical literature, drama, and poetry to make subtle but important points about the nature and tasks of aging. There is far here than may appear from the number of pages. My only criticism is of the Kindle version, which has
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  L. A. Robinson

  Like her former partner Robert A. Johnson, Helen Luke is a master of rendering the psychological meanings in great literature understandable and relevant to all people wishing to gain a deeper level of understanding about the growtn of the human soul. Having plumbed the
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  Lynne

  Ahhthis book. I resisted the title because I didn't want to admit it was my demographic! This book is brilliant, deep, passionate. Its most outstanding qualities are it's not cliches. She calls us to old age as a deep developmental stage. And she uses mythic stories from