From Age-ing to Sage-ing Quotes

“elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“she has carried this sacred sense of community building into”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“the Industrial Revolution’s cosmology, which treats human beings as mechanisms, machine parts in a mechanical universe. Since machines are prized for their functional value, there is little incentive to keep old ones around that don’t produce anymore. We don’t totally scrap them, however. We simply remove them from the whir and hum of productive life, where in mechanical fashion they rust from disuse.”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“Since the Industrial Revolution, this direct, person-to-person transmission has become the mass-produced province of schools, factories, and professionals. We no longer consult our elders for the practical information we need. Often, the professional knowledge they acquire becomes obsolete in the course of their own lifetimes. So what do you do with an older population rendered useless by an industrial society? Like any other disempowered group, you warehouse elders in segregated ghettos such as”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“Peaceful death is really an essential human right,” he writes, “more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person.… There is no greater gift of charity you can give than helping a person to die well.”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“As our elders teach us how to find more inner satisfaction, we’ll decrease our reliance on consumerism and live in greater harmony with the Earth and its resources.”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“as they break free of society’s conventions, elders learn to follow the dictates of their own hearts, a state that Chinen calls “emancipated innocence.” Because they have individuated through facing personal evil and abandoning private ambitions, older people can then work for the well-being of the world. Serving as mediators between the transcendent and everyday realms, they become mentors, teachers, and spiritual leaders. “Because we’ve ignored the inner life of older people, the elder psychologies that we’ve developed so far represent only preliminary approaches,”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older

“own voice or have a friend do it for you. When recorded in your own”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older