Opportunities for Inner Growth

​-from Rabbi Heschel:
May I suggest that man’s (sic) potential for change and growth is much greater than we are willing to admit and that old age be regarded not as the age of stagnation but as the age of opportunities for inner growth….the years of old age may enable us to attain the high values we failed to sense, the insights we have missed, and the wisdom we ignored. They are indeed formative years, rich in possibilities to unlearn the follies of a lifetime, to see through in-bred self-deceptions, to deepen understanding and compassion, to widen the horizons of honesty, to refine the sense of fairness. (from “To Grow I Wisdom” 1961)

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