https://choprafoundation.org/ask-deepak/ask-deepak-midlife-crisis/ Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/ask-deepak/ask-deepak-midlife-crisis/#comment-4275 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:04:09 +0000 http://deepakchopra.com/?p=2452#comment-4275 At, or too near the end of my life for comfort, I feel myself drawn into the arms of a parent–Our Parent–or as I sometimes call God: The Author of our existence.
As Parent God is better in that role then my biological parents or than I could ever have aspired to be to my once living but now dead children.
In no small measure do I become a child blest and best expressed as;
“suffer the little children to come to me. . . . ”
I find peace in knowing my parents and children are enfolded by God and thus welcome each day as a present leading me to Our Parent.
As now an old man well past the apogee of mid-life I suggest that you give full consciousness to each moment–your rising up and laying down–your joy and sorrow.
And in that consciousness you will find that you are with God in the before, during and after the life you now live. . . .
Beloved, precious, free and unique.
As for myself there is within what I have said a suggestion of reincarnation and I would protest that I do not want to suffer the vicissitudes again. Looking back at what I presumed was loss has been returned renewed since my hands, arms and mind are no longer occupied with a wife, children, possessions or any sense of myself as extraordinary. . . . As mother taught me; “We are no more important than a grain of sand.”
I was born, I had life and I will die.
What is new in that?
That I so love God I will gladly do it again should Mother/Father require it of me.
And so dear friend we are writ large upon the sands of eternity becoming that which we Love.

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