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Now that we have completed our journey through the stages of life to the pinnacle of adulthood, what have we learned? Have we found the Holy Grail, the answer to life’s mysteries? Ah, that it were that simple. But perhaps we have become a bit wiser, a step or two closer to fulfillment. What is wisdom, you may ask? Can it be defined? And fulfillment; is it really an obtainable goal or a cruel illusion? Despite the impossibility of arriving at precise definitions, or ones which would be agreed to by a majority, I humbly present the following ideas.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
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Gary Levinson, “New Beginnings at Seventy: A Decade of Psychotherapy in Late Adulthood,” in The Race Against Time: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in the Second Half of Life, ed. Robert Nemiroff and Calvin Colarusso (New York: Plenum, 1985), pp. 171–188.
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Colarusso, C.A. (1994). Wisdom, Maturity, and Fulfillment. In: Fulfillment in Adulthood. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6509-7_12
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