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Discovered Treasure: Gems of Wisdom by Connie Goldman As Liaison with the Sage-ing International Council of Honored Sages for several years, I had the opportunity to speak regularly with Honored Sage, Connie Goldman. We discovered a common love of gardening, and one of my favorite books [...]

SI and I - My Story In 1996, while attending a men’s conference in New Mexico, a workshop leader encouraged me to read a newly published book about growing older, “From Age-ing to Sage-ing.”  As a 55-year-old man contemplating early retirement and wondering about my [...]

Lifelong Learning: A Pathway to Greater Wisdom and Personal Growth Nurturing the Mind, Enriching the Spirit Learning is not only a hallmark of one’s early years; it can be a lifetime journey of exploration, discovery, and growth. Being that avid lifelong learner is a choice. [...]

SI and I: My Story I began my journey to discover my inner life, that is the search for my soul and my authentic self at age 42 when the grit of the failure of a marriage began to form.   From that point my inner [...]

Journey from Adult to Elder I didn’t even know there was an elder stage in life until my late 50’s. After reading “From Age-ing to Sage-ing” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, I realized how distorted my view and our society’s are on aging. Prior to reading this [...]

Suffering Effectively: Reflections on the Buddha’s First Noble Truth I first heard the phrase effective suffering from meditation teacher Shinzen Young, who used it in a story he told about the renowned Christian contemplative Thomas Merton.[1] Merton lived quite a bohemian life before he converted to [...]

A Practice in Conscious Aging: Integrity In our second issue of Sage-ing Times we turn our focus to Integrity, one of the ten Qualities of Sages in Service. We practice integrity by being genuine and true to ourselves, being honest and trustworthy in relations with others, and being [...]

My Personal Paradigm Shift Without a doubt, the transition to elderhood is a time often marked by the loss of professional work and identity, the death of loved ones, changes to our physical bodies, and both planned or unplanned geographical moves. Yet, many of us [...]

Conscious Aging vs Positive Aging Which camp are you in – conscious aging or positive aging? My sense is that we are more drawn to one than the other. This is a great topic of discussion for us Boomers in particular, as these two philosophies [...]