As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face

People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path, and where we had thought to find abomination, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age", but a spiritual dead end.

We believe that somewhere around age 20, we'll begin to see low-lead exposed individuals surpass high-lead exposed individuals in bone mass density. Then, in the 50 to 60 age group ? the age at which any individuals will begin to experience a natural loss of bone ? we expect to see the high-lead exposed individuals losing more bone sooner.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth