Living an examined life: wisdom for the second half of the journey / James Hollis PhD.

Includes bibliographic references.

Preface -- The choice is yours -- It's time to grow up -- Let go of the old -- Recover personal authority -- Seek to make amends -- Step out from under the parental shade -- Vow to get unstuck -- Come back to your task -- Choose the path of enlargement -- What gift have you been withholding from the world? -- See the old self-destructive patterns -- What is the bigger picture for you? -- Choose meaning over happiness -- Honor, finally, what you left behind, and seize permission to be who you are -- Exorcise the ghosts of the past that bind you -- Free your children from you -- Bestow love on the unlovable parts of you -- Honor the difference between job, duty, and calling -- Construct a mature spirituality -- Seize permission to be who you really are -- Live the examined life: Live the questions, not the answers -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography --About the author

How do you define “growing up”? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks—a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? If you find yourself in a career, place, relationship, or crisis you never foresaw and that seems at odds with your beliefs about who you are, it means your soul is calling on you to reexamine your path.

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