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  1. KathleenA. Brehony _ Awakening at Midlife

    James Hollis correctly observes, "Wisdom is always humbling, never inflationary. . . . The realistic thinking of midlife has as its necessary goal the righting of a balance, the restoration of a person to a humble but dignified relationship to the universe.
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  2. KathleenA. Brehony _ Awakening at Midlife

    The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life's opportunities has shut."
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